Jorge Rafael Videla - It's an unknown, it's a disappeared. It has n

It's an unknown, it's a disappeared. It has no identity, it's neither alive nor dead...it's disappeared

Context

Tens of thousands of Government opponents and independent thinkers of all kinds were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in Argentina’s Dirty War conducted by the military junta which Videla headed. See {41586}. After democracy was returned to Argentina, he was tried and convicted for murder and other government atrocities committed during his administration. See {41542}.

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Jorge Rafael Videla, 1925-*, General and President of Argentina, Reference to that part of the population which Videla and his military butchers kidnapped and murdered, 1979

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