The World : Argentina Orders Trials

Federal courts in Argentina, narrowly beating a midnight deadline, ordered trials for more than 100 military officers accused of human rights abuses. President Raul Alfonsin proposed the deadline to lift the “unending suspicion,” as he called it, that has hung over the armed forces since 1983, when military rule ended. Human rights groups have accused 1,000 military and police officers of torturing and mur1684370025defendant not yet tried is former army commander Carlos Guillermo Suarez Mason, being held in San Francisco pending extradition hearings. Suarez Mason had jurisdiction in the area where most of the human rights offenses were committed.