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In Colombia DAS had hugh responsibilities for many interior functions as well as intelligence. Like the intelligence service of many countries the Colombia DAS developed a culture of torture and other human rights abuses. President Santos realized that the agency had developed and evil, undemocratic culture that most of the citizens feared and distrusted. In many such instances, it is almost impossible to reform such and agency and eliminating it and starting with a new set of people who can develop a new culture.
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}.
The Argentine Military kidnapped, tortured and murdered tens of thousands of Argentine citizens after they had seized power. When they were finally tried, like the Nuremberg Trials of the Nazis, the crimes were so terrible that specific existing laws were not sufficient to describe the crimes exactly. The conviction of the Argentine criminals, like the Nazis, broke new ground in international law.
