Rights groups laud U.S. for arrests of 3 Latin Americans

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Houston Chronicle/New York Times

April 4, 2007, 11:36PM
Rights groups laud U.S. for arrests of 3 Latin Americans
Ex-Argentine, Peruvian officers are accused of war crimes in their home countries

By LARRY ROHTER
New York Times

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — Latin American human rights groups have reacted with satisfaction and muted surprise to the arrest in the United States of three Argentine and Peruvian former military officers accused of human rights abuses who had fled their home countries to avoid prosecution there.

Of the three, detained over the weekend in Virginia, Maryland and Florida and charged with violating immigration laws, the most notorious is Ernesto Guillermo Barreiro of Argentina.

During the so-called Dirty War of the late 1970s, he was the chief interrogator at La Perla, a clandestine prison in Cordoba, Argentina's second-largest city, where more than 2,000 prisoners were tortured or killed.

"This is big news, and deserves to be celebrated both in Argentina and the United States," said Gaston Chillier, director of the Center for Legal and Social Studies, a leading human rights group in Buenos Aires, Argentina.







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[sam sarrha]

1. unfortunately they were picked up by Limos to be taken to receive their Medals of Freedom from our

torture Miester and the Village of DC's Idiot.. they are the sort of people admired by the pResident.