The World : Argentines to Be Pardoned

Eighteen retired Argentine generals and admirals facing trial on charges they committed hundreds of human rights abuses in the 1970s will be pardoned, President Carlos Saul Menem announced. The cases of six other people, including two former presidents already convicted and sentenced, will be reviewed later, Menem said. The statement was the first firm indication of those to be included in the controversial pardon, expected to be formally announced in late September. A government commission named by Menem’s predecessor, former President Raul Alfonsin, determined that at least 9,000 Argentines disappeared during an anti-subversion campaign in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.