Spain to send torture suspect to Argentina

[Judi Lynn]

Source: UPI



Right-wing genocidal torturer Eduardo Almiron.

Spain to send torture suspect to Argentina

Published: Feb. 15, 2008 at 8:22 PM
MADRID, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Spanish officials said Friday they had agreed to extradite an Argentine man back to his home country where he faces charges of torture and rights violations.

Eduardo Almiron is accused of belonging to a death squad that killed and maimed Argentineans in the years before the country's military dictatorship, known as the "Dirty War" (1976-1983), El Pais newspaper reported online.

Almiron, said to be in his 70s, was first arrested at his nursing home in 2006.

Some 30,000 people were killed or disappeared during the brutal regime there.



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Spain agrees to extradite ex-police officer sought by Argentina in Dirty War case
The Associated Press
Published: February 15, 2008

MADRID, Spain: Spain's government has agreed to extradite a former police officer to Argentina, where he is suspected of having been a member of a far-right death squad during the 1970s, the Justice Ministry said Friday.

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Cabinet agreed at a meeting Friday to extradite Rodolfo Eduardo Almiron Sena to face charges that include genocide, the statement said.

Argentine judicial authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Almiron on Dec. 20 for his alleged role in two killings.

The statement said that between 1973 and 1975 Almiron took part in illegal activities within the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, known as the Triple A, a far-right death squad that operated under the government of Gen. Juan Domingo Peron and then under that of his wife, Isabel Peron, who was toppled by Jorge Videla in a 1976 coup.

More:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/15/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Argentina-Dirty-War.php

[acmavm]

1. Good. The world needs to send a message to those who advocate torture

that sooner or later justice WILL catch up with them.

I wonder if the clowns in this country are listening. I say keep Rummy on life support until his turn to pay comes around.