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Argentine Court Opens Landmark Torture Trial

HeadlineOct 19, 2007

In Argentina, a landmark trial has opened into human rights abuses at the military dictatorship’s main prison during the so-called “dirty war.” Thousands of dissidents were tortured at the Navy School of Mechanics, known as ESMA, for seven years beginning in 1976. Victims will give closed-door testimony against former Navy officer Héctor Febres, who is being tried for torture. Former prisoner Enrique Fuchman said the trial has raised mixed emotions.

Enrique Fuchman: “They are not even going to try him for kidnapping the people he tortured. So it’s a mix of saying, well, we’ve taken another step forward, but we’re really angry.”

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