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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 ...
GAL was active from 1983 to 1987, a period known as la guerra sucia ("the dirty war") in Spanish history. Its main purposes were to attack ETA members and Basque nationalist targets and to wreak havoc in French territory to put pressure on the French government. [1]
Channel 7, Argentine Public Television (1983). Official investigations undertaken after the end of the Dirty War by the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons documented 8,961 [8] desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance) and other human rights violations
The dictatorship was a series of several military governments under four military juntas.The fourth junta, before calling for elections and relinquishing power to the democratic authorities, enacted a Self-Amnesty Law on April 18, 1983, as well as a secret decree that ordered the destruction of records and other evidence of their past crimes.
The use of detention centers in the Dirty War, the period of state terrorism in Argentina between 1976 and 1983, caused immense fear for victims throughout the country. . After being kidnapped and interrogated, the prisoners would be subjected to the harsh and overcrowded conditions of the various detention center
The cost of war is so great that compromise should not be a dirty word. If there is to be another ceasefire, this time in Ukraine, it is vitally important that Mr Zelensky should negotiate from a ...
During the years of the Dirty War, the name used by the military junta in Argentina from 1976 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor, military and security forces and right-wing death squads in the form of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (AAA, or Triple A) hunted down political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with socialism ...