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18.03.2010 |  | During the “dirty war” which caused havoc during the period 1976-1983 under the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla, between 13’000 and 30’000 people went missing in Argentina.
One of the methods used to get rid of opponents to the regime without trace was to organise “flights of death” during which the people who had been abducted were thrown out of the aircraft, naked and unconscious, into the ocean thousands of metres below.
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10.03.2010 | | Philip DeCamp was lieutenant colonel of the 3rd Infantry Division of the US army in Iraq. On the morning of 8 April 2003, Sgt. Shawn Gibson (see “related cases”), the commander of a 3rd Infantry Division M-1 Abrams tank positioned on the Al-Jumhuriya Bridge in Bagdad reported spotting a person with binoculars in a building on the east side of the river. It is not clear whether he then received an immediate order to fire or whether he fired after ... |
10.03.2010 | | Fidel Castro (Fidel Alejandro Castro Rúz) was born in Mayari, Cuba, on 13 August 1926. He was Cuba’s head of government from 1959 -2008, and the country’s president from 1976-2008.
According to the ‘Fundación para los Derechos Humanos en Cuba’ (FDHC) Fidel Castro is responsible for:
- setting up then maintaining, since 1959, a political system that suppresses freedom and spurns human rights.
- extensive and systematic imprisonment of polit... |
10.03.2010 | | | Jay Bybee |  Investigations underway |  Spain |  United-States |
Jay Bybee was born 27 October 1953 in Oakland California. He graduated from Brigham Young University en 1977 and received a law degree from the same university in 1980.
He worked at the Department of Justice from 1984 to 1989 and later became legal counsel to President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1991. Bybee became the director of the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice in 2001.
According the complaint, Bybee helped to wr... |
27.02.2010 | | Ricardo Taddei was born in 1943. He was an officer with the Argentine Federal Police and worked in so-called clandestine detention centres between 1976 and 1979, where he worked as a guard and interrogator.
According to the police, Taddei allegedly participated in the abduction, torture and interrogation of 161 people between 1976 and 1979.
In 1979, Taddei left the police force and became a colonel in the army, where he worked for military ... |
26.02.2010 | | The english version of this profile will soon be accessible online. |
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26.02.2010 | | Donaldo Alvarez Ruiz studied law and later qualified as a lawyer. He helped the military to set up a political party, the PID (Partido Institucional Democratico) in which he was to hold the position of Secretary General, before becoming a Member of Congress.
The Dictator-General Kjell Laugerud appointed him Minister of the Interior in 1976, with responsibility for domestic security, with the additional role as Minister of Police and Secret Pol... |
18.02.2010 | | The english version of this profile will soon be accessible online. |
18.02.2010 | | Born in 1920, Chupina Barahona attended the Police Academy and subsequently rose through the ranks.
He was sent to the School of the Americas in Panama in 1960. From being police Colonel he rose to become Chief of the National Police in 1978 under the presidency of General Lucas Garcia. (see “Related Cases”) He created a death squadron called “Commando Seis” (Commando Six), which he allegedly led from 1978 to 1982.
He was accused of particip... |
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