Jorge Rafael Videla : Death of a “Dirty War” criminal | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/05/jorge-rafael-videla?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/warcriminal
Et c’est The Economist qui le dit (le journal qui a priori défendait sa poliique et celle de Pinochet, mais bon.)
JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA, an Argentine former military dictator who ordered the torture, murder and disappearance of thousands of civilians during the country’s seven-year military rule, died on May 17th in his prison cell on the edge of Buenos Aires, where he was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity.
Dubbed the “Pink Panther” for his lanky frame and stealthy gait, Videla seized power in 1976 when left-wing militants, runaway inflation and corruption had begun to rattle Isabel Perón’s civilian government. He said that military rule was necessary to protect national security and human rights. In power, however, he had a selective vision of who was entitled to such rights. Not suspected leftists, certainly; nor anyone who did not ascribe to his totalitarian ideology. “He viewed his mission as sacred, and those who disagreed with it as sinful enemies,” says Federico Finchelstein, an Argentine historian at the New School university.
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