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16.08.2008 |  | Anton Tittjung was born in Erdud, Yugoslavia (now part of Croatia) on 17th November 1924.
He joined the Waffen SS in October 1942 and served as an SS trooper until the end of World War II.
Tittjung was allegedly a member of the Totenkopf-Sturmbann (Death's Head Battalion), where he operated as an armed guard at the Nazi-operated Mauthausen concentration camp and its sub-camp Gross Raming in occupied Austria.
Following the end of the War... |
21.03.2008 | | 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... |
21.02.2008 | | 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:
- building and maintaining since 1959 a political system that suppresses freedom and spurns human rights.
- Extensive and systematic imprisonment of political ... |
17.02.2008 | | María Estela Martínez de Perón, better known as Isabel Perón, was born in La Rioja, Argentina, on 4 February 1931. She worked as a dancer in a night club when she met former Argentine president Juan Domingo Perón, who had lost his second wife Eva (Evita) in 1952. The couple got married in 1961 during Perón's Spanish exile.
After his return to Argentina, Juan Perón was re-elected president in 1973. His wife Isabel was made vice-president.
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19.12.2007 | | The english version of this profile will soon be accessible online. |
19.12.2007 | | Efrain Rios Montt was born on 16 June 1924. He began his military career in 1946 as a cadet and was made general in 1972. Between 1970 and 1974 he was chief of the Guatemalan army. In 1974 he was elected president as a candidate of the Christian Democratic Party, but the candidate of the armed forces, general Kjell Laugerud, deposed him and sent him into exile.
In 1978 Montt left the army and became a priest in the Puritan Iglesia del Verbo (C... |
25.11.2007 | | Donaldo Alvarez Ruiz studied law and 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 Police. I... |
25.11.2007 | | The english version of this profile will soon be accessible online. |
25.11.2007 | | The english version of this profile will soon be accessible online. |
07.07.2007 | | 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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