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Priest Gets Life for 'Dirty War' Crimes

A former Roman Catholic priest who delivered dozens of Argentines to the former military junta was sentenced to life in prison yesterday. Christian von Wernich, 69, passed his parishioners’ confessions...

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Argentina Baby Snatch Witness Dies in Trial

Days before he was to testify about the Dirty War disappearance of twins born to a political prisoner, a former Argentine army officer has been found dead of a gunshot wound to the head, the BBC...

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Two Pilots Face Extradition in Dirty War Death Flights

Two Argentines charged with piloting notorious "death flights" during the country's brutal military dictatorship are facing extradition. The pilots, one arrested in Argentina and the other in Spain,...

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Argentina Media Heirs May Have Been Stolen Babies

Brother and sister heirs to one of Argentina's largest media companies are being forced to undergo DNA testing to determine if they were stolen as babies from tortured political prisoners to be handed...

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106th Stolen Baby Identified in Argentina

One hundred and six, and counting: A group dedicated to reuniting children snatched during Argentina's "Dirty War" with their biological families has just completed its 106th case, reports the BBC ....

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Dark Cloud in Francis' Past: The Dirty War

Although responses to Pope Francis have been chiefly positive , one dark stain in church history is raising serious questions about the new pope—the church's role during the dictatorship in Argentina,...

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Argentine Dictator Videla Dies in Prison

Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called...

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36 Years Later, Activist Finds Grandson Stolen in Dirty War

A group devoted to tracking the children taken from parents murdered in Argentina's "Dirty War" and placed with families who supported the military regime has found its 114th "stolen child"—the...

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Priest Gets Life for 'Dirty War' Crimes

A former Roman Catholic priest who delivered dozens of Argentines to the former military junta was sentenced to life in prison yesterday. Christian von Wernich, 69, passed his parishioners’ confessions...

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Argentina Baby Snatch Witness Dies in Trial

Days before he was to testify about the Dirty War disappearance of twins born to a political prisoner, a former Argentine army officer has been found dead of a gunshot wound to the head, the BBC...

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Two Pilots Face Extradition in Dirty War Death Flights

Two Argentines charged with piloting notorious "death flights" during the country's brutal military dictatorship are facing extradition. The pilots, one arrested in Argentina and the other in Spain,...

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Argentina Media Heirs May Have Been Stolen Babies

Brother and sister heirs to one of Argentina's largest media companies are being forced to undergo DNA testing to determine if they were stolen as babies from tortured political prisoners to be handed...

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106th Stolen Baby Identified in Argentina

One hundred and six, and counting: A group dedicated to reuniting children snatched during Argentina's "Dirty War" with their biological families has just completed its 106th case, reports the BBC ....

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Dark Cloud in Francis' Past: The Dirty War

Although responses to Pope Francis have been chiefly positive , one dark stain in church history is raising serious questions about the new pope—the church's role during the dictatorship in Argentina,...

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Argentine Dictator Videla Dies in Prison

Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called...

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36 Years Later, Activist Finds Grandson Stolen in Dirty War

A group devoted to tracking the children taken from parents murdered in Argentina's "Dirty War" and placed with families who supported the military regime has found its 114th "stolen child"—the...

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Her Identity Was a 40-Year-Old Secret. Then It Unraveled

Violeta Ortolani was eight months pregnant when she was detained by Argentina's military in 1976 during the country's "Dirty War." Following the January 1977 birth of her daughter, the 23-year-old...

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