Argentina sentences ex-generals to life

Published: Aug. 30, 2008 at 1:44 AM
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BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Two ex-military leaders from Argentina's former dictatorship have been sentenced to life in prison for ordering the deaths of an opposition lawmaker.

The ex-generals -- Luciano Benjamin Menendez and Antonio Domingo Bussi, both in their 80s -- maintained their innocence, La Nacion reported.

Menendez and Bussi were convicted of the 1976 disappearance and death of Sen. Guillermo Vargas Aignasse.

Some 30,000 people were killed during the so-called "Dirty War" (1976-1983) led by Argentina's military dictators.


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