[news] Argentinian jailed for throwing prisoners from plane

[Resist!ca]

"An Argentinian former naval officer who threw prisoners, drugged and naked, to their death from planes was convicted of crimes against humanity and jailed for a total of 640 years by a Spanish court yesterday for his part in the 'dirty war' against dissidents conducted by the Argentinian military regime in the 1970s." ... "His trial was the first successful prosecution under a Spanish law which allows crimes against humanity committed in other countries to be tried in Spain."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/22/63750/7917