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| |  | | Roberto Eduardo Viola | | | judgement place : | Argentina  | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to 17 years imprisonment at the trial of the military in 1985; freed in 1990 | | position : | Commander in Chief of the Army, President by Interim in 1981 |
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| | | | Roberto Eduardo Viola was born on 13 October 1924. He took up a military career and was appointed Commander in Chief of the Argentine Army in 1975. He was a fervent supporter of the 1976 coup d’état and was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in 1977 and then to Commander in Chief with the rank of Lieutenant General.
He replaced Videla (see “related cases”) as the Head of State on 29 March 1981, but was himself ousted from power by General Galtieri (see “related cases”) on 11 December 1981.
During the years of dictatorship, in what was later to be termed a “dirty war” (1976-1983), the Argentine military resolved to eradicate what successive juntas called “subversive thoughts” as well as “terrorists”, namely “anyone who disseminated ideas contrary to Western Christian civilisation”. During the years that followed, the military murdered or forcibly “disappeared” from 10’000 to 30’000 people. Along similar lines, some 500’000 opponents of the regime found themselves forced into exile to escape from its repression.
Several hundred secret detention centres were set up throughout the country. Torture was practised systematically in these centres. Also in these places numerous prisoners were murdered or disappeared. Young women prisoners who gave birth there had their children taken away from them and placed in military families after falsification of the relevant documents.
In the course of 1983, the military regime, weakened by its resounding defeat by the British navy in the Falklands war, gave way to a democratically elected civilian government with, as its President, the Radical Raul Alfonsin. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Argentina | | | date of birth : | | | 13.10.1924 | | | judgement period : | | | 22.04.1985 - 09.12.1985 | | | charges : | | | Other | | | profile last modified : | | | 29.11.2006 |
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