Thousands of opponents of Argentina's military junta thrown into the sea, court hears
SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2019
Thousands of opponents of Argentina’s military junta thrown into the sea, court hears
ARGENTINIANS have heard shocking testimony of how more than 4,000 victims of the military junta that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983 were thrown into the sea alive by leading army figures.
Former colonel Nelson Ramon Gonzalez told a court hearing it was “common knowledge” that thousands of those who resisted the dictatorship passed through the notorious Campo de Mayo military base, which acted as a clandestine detention centre.
Many of them were taken onto planes and then dropped into the ocean.
“About 4,000 people passed through [Campo de Mayo] and then were thrown into the sea alive,” said Gonzalez. “It was known throughout Campo de Mayo. There were the Fiat planes and the flights left there. It was common knowledge,” he said.
Mr Gonzalez was giving evidence via video link last week in a “mega-trial” looking into the deaths of 323 people killed at four bases in the Campo de Mayo in the so-called “dirty war.”
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