Ex-Police Official Gets Life in Junta Slayings
From Times Wire Reports
A retired police commissioner was sentenced to life in prison for murder, torture and kidnapping during Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship.
In court, family members of victims and human rights activists wept and applauded. Outside, hundreds more cheered.
Miguel Etchecolatz, 77, ran clandestine detention centers during the dictatorship, under which an estimated 11,000 to 30,000 people were killed.
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