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The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for its period of state terrorism [12] [10] [13] in Argentina [14] [15] from 1974 to 1983.
National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (Spanish: Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, CONADEP) was an Argentine organization created by President Raúl Alfonsín on 15 December 1983, shortly after his inauguration, to investigate the fate of the desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance) and other human rights violations (see: Dirty War) performed during the ...
The junta launched the Dirty War, a campaign of state terrorism against opponents involving torture, extrajudicial murder and systematic forced disappearances. Public opposition due to civil rights abuses and inability to solve the worsening economic crisis in Argentina caused the junta to invade the Falkland Islands in April 1982.
In Argentina, there were seven coups d'état during the 20th century: in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1976, and 1981. The first four established interim dictatorships, while the fifth and sixth established dictatorships of permanent type on the model of a bureaucratic-authoritarian state.
Kissinger consistently commented on the Dirty War without acting to change the situation. [12] The US Embassy in Argentina confirmed that 80-90% of the clandestine detention centers were destroyed by 1979 when the IACHR traveled to Argentina. Two embassy staff remarked that this progress was satisfactory because most of the camps had been removed.
Human rights activists state that in the aftermath of the coup and ensuing Dirty War, some 30,000 people, primarily young opponents of the military regime, were "disappeared" or killed. [24] Military men responsible for the killings often spared pregnant women for a time, keeping them in custody until they gave birth, before killing them and ...
This is a list of wars involving the Argentine Republic and its predecessor states from the colonial period to present day. Argentine victory: in case of an international victory or just a bellic victory/inconclusive conflict with favorable ending. Argentine defeat: in the case of an international bellic defeat.
Dirty War; Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas) Return to democracy. ... This is a list of years in Argentina. See also the timeline of Argentine history.