LatinNews Daily Report - 06 July 2012

POLITICS & SECURITY | Historic ruling convicts Videla of the systematic appropriation of babies. On 5 July the sixth federal oral tribunal of Argentina convicted the former de facto presidents Jorge Rafael Videla (1976-1981) and Reynaldo Bignone (1982-1983) for the appropriation of children and babies born in captivity to mothers detained, and most of them disappeared, by the last military regime (1976-1983). Videla was found guilty of designing and executing a "systematic and generalised practice of subtraction, retention and hiding of minors, altering, suppressing or making their identity uncertain, during the kidnapping, captivity, disappearance or death of their mothers within a general plan of annihilation that was deployed against the civilian population with the excuse of combating subversion, implementing state terrorism methods between the years 1976 and 1983 of the last military dictatorship".

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