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President Alberto Fernández helps publicise the Plantamos Memoría initiative. | Presidencia de la Nación
President Alberto Fernández has urged Argentines to keep the memory of those who lost their lives during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship alive and in their thoughts, ahead of this week’s remembrance services.
Speaking on Saturday, just a few days before the country remembers the March 24, 1976 coup that brought the dictatorship to power, the president said that it was important to keep those lost to history fresh in everyone’s thoughts. I ask everyone that every March 24 we frankly remember the horror that we live, said the president, addressing an event honouring workers who were detained and disappeared by the military junta.
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Buenos Aires, Feb 18 (efe-epa).- A court in Buenos Aires handed down sentences ranging from six months to life in prison Thursday to eight people for more than 800 crimes committed at the most notorious chamber of horrors of Argentina’s 1976-1983 military regime.
“The deeds dealt with in this process constitute crimes against humanity and as such, not governed by the statute of limitations,” Judge Daniel Horacio Obligado said as he announced his verdict.
The trial in the fourth “mega-case” for abductions, killings and torture carried out by teams operating from the Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) in Buenos Aires began in August 2018.