As reported by the BBC, Thursday, October 27, 2011, in addition to Astiz, as many as 10 former members of the military and police were also sentenced for life for the same crime. They all worked at the Navy Mechanics School in Buenos Aires (Esma), which turned out to be the facility's secret torture and murder of the military government at that time.
A total of 5000 prisoners in that place, 90 percent of them declared dead. Some of them were killed by being shot, others were thrown alive from a ship into the Atlantic Ocean. More than 70 people who survived a witness in a court of Astiz.
Man 59 years was known as a symbol of violence in the military government. When I became a naval intelligence officer, he had invaded menyebru Plaza de Mayo human rights group, and abducted the activists of the nuns.
Astiz also been tried in abstentia in France for the murder of a nun of the country, Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet, who disappeared in Argentina in 1977. Argentine human rights groups say about 30,000 people were killed, or lost due to their opposition campaign against leftist guerrillas.
In his defense, Astiz said all his actions is to protect Argentina from left-wing terrorism. He said the court it is a political revenge.
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