8 Wednesday, July 20, 2016 La Plata: federal court indicts former military officers for human rights abusesA federal court in La Plata has indicted 21 suspects charged with crimes against humanity committed during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983) in Police Station No. 7 unit and the Intelligence 101 Detachment of La Plata, in coordination with the Buenos Aires provincial authorities. 8 of Buenos Aires province’s capital, which functioned as a clandestine detention centre during that period. The police station was just one link in the chain of clandestine detention centres that functioned in La Plata and in the surrounding areas. Retired officers Carlos del Señor Hidalgo Garzón and Ricardo Luis Von Kyaw are charged with kidnapping and torturing 81 people between 1976 and 1978 in the Greater Buenos Aires district of La Matanza.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 20, 2016 03:11 UTC