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The trial of the so-called “Campo de Mayo” concluded this Wednesday in Argentina. 19 people were sentenced to sentences ranging from four years to life for crimes committed by the dictatorship that occurred between 1976 and 1983. Another trial ended on Monday, in which four soldiers were convicted of “death flights.”
By our correspondent in Buenos Aires, Theo Conscience.
Campo de Mayo is a military area located about 30 kilometers from Buenos Aires. During the dictatorship it was a clandestine detention and extermination center. The process ended this Wednesday, July 6, after three years and three months of hearings, which made it possible to document how this headquarters of repression worked.
According to prosecutor Gabriela Sosti, only 1% of the 5,000 opponents detained there managed to get out alive. 19 people were convicted of kidnapping, torture, sexual abuse and homicide against 350 victims. Among them, 14 were pregnant women, whose babies were stolen after delivery at the military hospital.
More than 750 witnesses testified in these three years and 10 of the defendants received life sentences.
May Field Trial
10 perpetual: Riveros, Arce, Saadi Pepa, Guañabens, Tamini, Somoza, Conde, Domínguez, Agostino and Britos.– Luciana Bertoia (@LucianaBertoia) July 6, 2022
flights of death
This verdict was given a few days after the trial on the “flights of death” concluded on Monday, which began in October 2020. Four former soldiers from the Army Aviation Battalion 601 were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of four people. , whose remains were found on the Atlantic coast.
Final verdict in the Campo de Mayo Death Flights Trial:
Santiago Omar Riveros, PERPETUAL.
Luis del Valle Arce, PERPETUAL.
Delsis Ángel Malacalza, PERPETUAL.
Eduardo José María Lance, PERPETUAL.
Condemns for the first time those responsible for the death flights!– CHILDREN Córdoba (@hijoscba) July 4, 2022
The “flights of death” departed from Campo de Mayo and sedated opponents were thrown by aircraft into the Río de la Plata or the sea. The Argentine justice had recognized the existence of this method of execution in a 2014 ruling, but it is the first time that the systematic nature of this operating mode has been documented.
Witnesses who at the time were doing their military service testified at the trial. Some reported that they even found syringes or clothing near the landing strip. Others said they had to clean up blood from airplane cabins.
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