Gen. Riveros ran the notorious Campo de Mayo during the 1976-1983 “Dirty War” against political dissent under Argentina’s military dictatorship.
Santiago Omar Riveros in court on April, 20, 2010, facing human rights charges for atrocities during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina. Santiago Omar Riveros, an Argentine general who oversaw the most feared torture camp during the military junta’s “Dirty War” in the 1970s and ’80s, and whose trials decades later exposed chilling new details about the atrocities against leftist opponents and others, died May 24 while under house arrest in Buenos Aires. He was 100.
He listened as survivors recounted monstrous scenes: corpses incinerated in crematorium chambers and other bodies tossed into mass graves. Pregnant prisoners gave birth while shackled and were later killed without seeing their babies, witnesses said., who later served as president under the military junta. Both generals remained defiant during the legal reckonings over the Dirty War. Gen.
Gen. Riveros was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison. In a plaza near the courthouse, people gathered to watch the proceedings on giant-screen monitors. Cheers erupted at the verdicts.
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