Bolivia deports Argentine 'Dirty War' officer Paez

[Judi Lynn]

11 August 2014 Last updated at 06:25 ET
Bolivia deports Argentine 'Dirty War' officer


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Jorge Horacio Paez was arrested on Friday in the central Bolivian city of Santa Cruz[/font]

Bolivia says it has extradited an Argentine ex-officer accused of crimes against humanity committed under Argentina's military rule (1976-1983).

The officer, Jorge Horacio Paez Senestrari, was captured on Friday in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz.

He is accused of torture and aggravated homicide in Argentina's north-western San Juan province.

An estimated 30,000 people were tortured and killed during this period, in a campaign known as the "Dirty War".

On the run

Mr Paez, 68, had been on the run since 2011 and Interpol had issued a red notice, the highest possible alert, for his arrest.

He was detained in an apartment he had rented in Santa Cruz, which police said he only left at night for an hour at a time to buy basic supplies.

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[Louisiana1976]

1. Good for Bolivia. Now if the US would only send Henry Kissinger to Argentina where he could be

tried and convicted for his role in her Dirty War things would be great.

[Judi Lynn]

2. He should have been imprisoned right along with the Argentinian officials he supported

and encouraged in their war upon better human beings than they.

It's a shrieking pity he could prompt them to commit their obscene acts of torture, desecration, and rape against men and women before murdering them, and remaining totally untouched legally by the evil done in the world with his contributions.