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CORDOBA, Argentina, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A former guard in an Argentine detention center who might have testified at a human rights trial was found dead in suspicious circumstances, officials say.
Jesus Gonzalez's death was initially thought to be a suicide, CNN reported, citing Telam, the official government news agency. His body was found Friday in the bathroom of his home in Cordoba with a stab wound in his chest.
Gonzalez, nicknamed "el flaco" or "the skinny one," was expected to testify against Gen. Luciano Benjamin Menendez, who was a commander in Cordoba under the dictatorship.
Menendez, already sentenced to life in prison last year, is on trial with five others on charges that include illegally imprisoning political suspects and torturing and killing them. Gonzalez was a guard in one of the detention centers in Cordoba.
As many as 30,000 people vanished between 1976 and 1983. The current trial centers on the case of Fermin Albareda, a member of a Communist group, the People's Revolutionary Army, who was allegedly tortured and killed in Cordoba in 1979.
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