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Cristina Garzo de Lascano ordered Luciano Benjamin Menendez to be held – as well as 15 other former officers – after probing the Sept. 3, 1976 abduction of student Diego Hunziker. The judge said Hunziker, 18, was abducted in central Cordoba province by an armed group suspected of acting for the Third Army Corps, a unit commanded at the time by Menendez. Witnesses said Hunziker was tortured and then killed three weeks later. In June, the Supreme Court struck down sweeping amnesties that shielded hundreds of former officers, including Menendez, from prosecution. Menendez is already under house arrest in other cases stemming from the dictatorship.
238:"We have to act drastically. Operacion Independencia can't just consist of a roundup of political prisoners, because the army can't risk the lives of its men and lay its prestige on the line simply to act as a kind of police force that ends up by turning over X-number of political prisoners to some timorous judge... who will apply lenient punishment which in turn will be cancelled out by amnesties granted by ambitious politicians courting popularity. We're at war, and war obeys another law: he who wipes out the other side wins."
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whole of the parachute brigade was called in to restore order and stand guard at strategic points around the city of Córdoba for the remainder of the year, after the bombing of the Córdoba city police headquarters and radio communications centre. In all, 293 servicemen and policemen were killed combating left wing terrorism between 1975 and 1976.
224:"In the jungle-covered mountains of Tucuman, long known as "Argentina's garden," Argentines are fighting Argentines in a Vietnam-style civil war. So far, the outcome is in doubt. But there is no doubt about the seriousness of the combat, which involves 2,000 or so leftist guerrillas and perhaps as many as 10,000 soldiers."
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