From the BBC…

An Argentine ex-army officer has been sentenced to life in prison for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four left-wing activists.
Luciano Benjamin Menendez, 80, was found guilty along with seven others of the crimes.
Prosecutors say the victims were dumped in the street to make it look like they died in a shoot-out.
Menendez was one of Argentina’s most feared army officers during military rule between 1976 and 1983.
The BBC’s Daniel Schweimler in Argentina says family and friends of the victims were in court, many in tears, others simply staring silently at Menendez as the verdict was read out.
He adds that hundreds of others watched on a giant screen outside the courthouse, to witness a chapter closing on one of the darkest periods of Argentine history.
Torture centre
Menendez, who reached the rank of general, commanded the regional Third Army Corps for five years in the northern city of Cordoba.
He is viewed by Argentine human rights activists as a prime example of the military’s cruel rule in the 1970s and 1980s.
The left-wing activists who died in Cordoba in 1977 were Hilda Palacios, Carlos Laja, Ruben Cardozo and Humberto Brandalisi.
Prosecutors said the four were taken to a clandestine torture centre and held bound and gagged for a month before being executed.
Their bodies were then dumped in the street to make it look like they had died in a battle with the authorities - a common practice at the time.

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