Argentinian Falklands War veterans who accuse military officers of torture during the 1982 conflict will take their case to an international appeal court after Argentina’s highest court ruled the alleged offences’ statute of limitations had expired.
Mario Volpe, the president of the CECIM Falklands veterans’ association, said his organisation had asked the inter-American court of human rights to rule on whether the Argentinian state had deprived the former soldiers of “the right of access to justice and right to the truth”.
CECIM has gathered together some 150 complaints of former servicemen against their officers during the military dictatorship’s ill-fated invasion of the Falklands, which include instances of beatings, sexual violence, cruel immobilising practices in the absence of punishment cells and the application of electric shocks.
Their case had previously been dismissed under the statute of limitations, now they are appealing to the OAS’s International Court of Human Rights.
For her part, Cristina said, good luck with that “I hope you go to the inter-American Court; I’m sure you will be listened to.”
I’m still reading The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina and highly recommend it.
