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Argentinians protest against 'lax' sentences for war criminals

Human rights activists and families of 'Dirty War' victims protested against what they described as "lax" sentences handed to officers convicted of war crimes.

Gathering outside a Buenos Aires courthouse on Thursday, the protesters held photographs of the victims and demanded the sentences be lengthened.

Nora Cortinas, from a human rights group called the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, said,

"We can't tolerate these sentences. They are laughable for the crimes they committed. What more proof do they need?

"Do they want the victims who were tortured and killed to come up from the bottom of the ocean, to rise from the earth and testify against the crimes that were committed? What more proof has to be given?"

See here for footage of protest.

Argentina's ‘Dirty War’ was a period of state-sponsored terror friom 1976 to 1983 in which up to 30,000 people were killed or ‘disappeared’.

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