In Argentina, four military leaders have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms for human rights abuses during the Argentine military dictatorship. Lieutenant Colonel Julio Rafael Barreiro was given life imprisonment, while the other three were ordered jailed for between eighteen to twenty-five years. A relative of a junta victim said the verdict is about justice, not revenge.

Relative of junta victim: “Over the course of thirty years there hasn’t been one act of revenge on the part of or on behalf of any victim. That has always been how we have conducted ourselves, and it is exactly how we behaved in the courtroom today.”

It was the latest in a series of trials targeting military leaders of Argentina’s 1976 to 1983 junta.