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Alfredo Astiz, the 'blond angel of death', in the dock

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This Friday, Alfredo Astiz goes on trial in Buenos Aires for crimes against humanity. Known as the 'blond angel of death', this former navy captain is accused of being one of the most ruthless torturers and executioners of Argentina's military dictatorship (1976-1983).

FOCUS

Today's Focus guests are Sophie Thonon, lawyer for the families of two French nuns allegedly kidnapped annd executed by Alfredo Astiz, and Daniel Schweimler, GRN correspondent for FRANCE 24 in Buenos Aires.

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Astiz

by Anonyme - 28/10/2011 - 09:25

It's a shame that they do not talk about the guerrilla's crimes against humanity and the Argentinian people. About this lawyer of the so call "victims", you can tell that the only thing she wants is money. Crime against humanity? Who was the one who started the "dirty war"?, the communists in Argentina or Fidel Castra with his soul mate Che Guevara's ideology, that now has turn on to be a symbol of people's enmancipation; ask him of the hundreds of people that were summary executed and tortured in the Cabanas (Havana) prison after Castra took over ; in the same way that this "revolutionaries" wanted to do after they taken over power. Like all this political illiterate journalists that only know how to read news with their femmine look, Lenin said that the means justified the end, so I agree with Astiz and all the Junta people in erradicating this cancer, thanks to them, her husband and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner have been able to take them to trial and convict them, but definetly it would not have been the same in it would have been other way around if the "victims" have taken over.

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