November 3, 2009
Tuesday: 7:40PM
Florida,USA
All Dear Burmese Freedom Fighters,
There will be an excellent "World Stage Show" in the near future.The
evil Than Shwe may become a pigheaded star and will be on trial at
International Criminal Court with his deer generals.
Let us be united in a solid state Among ALL of US.Then we shall reach
our dreaming goal to free our motherland Burma in 2010.
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ARGENTINA- Former dictator,five generals on trial in human rights
cases:( from World News )
Argentina's last dictator Reynaldo Bignone and five of his generals
will begin trial for their human rights crimes on Tuesday more than 25
years ago.
Reynaldo Bignone and five generals were read their charges on Monday
for their violations and crimes against human rights more than 25
years ago, according to the Associated Press. Bignone is charged with
torturing 56 people and searching them illegally between 1976 and 1978
and then more as he was appointed President in 1982 by the military
junta.
The generals who are also facing similar charges are former
intelligence chief Fernando Ezequiel Verplaetsen and ex-military
officials Santiago Omar Riveros, Eugenio Guanabens Perello, Carlos
Alberto Tepedino and German A. Montenegro.
The trial is expected to last until March 2010 with more than 130
witness testifying, which many of them are survivors from Camp de
Mayo. Roughly 5,000 students, leftists, intellectuals and other
Argentineans were held in the jail. During Bignone’s military
dictatorship, thousands of citizens who were against his leadership
disappeared or were held in confinement in secret prisons or torture
centers.
Al Jazeera notes that the 81-year-old rocked back and forth in his
chair as his charges were being read to them. They also report that if
convicted they could face life in prison. He is currently living under
house arrest.
Justice Minister Julio Alak told CNN, “This is one of the most-
anticipated trials by the community and by human rights organizations
because of the magnitude of the crimes that were committed there.”
At the court house on Monday, hundreds of the victims’ family members
appeared in court showing large photos of their loved ones as each
defendant enters the courtroom.
The BBC reports that the lawyer for one of the relatives of one of the
victims, Alcira Rios, told Reuters, “This is a historic trial in the
search for truth for all of those who disappeared. We have to say no
to impunity. We owe it to our Argentine society.”
At least 13,000 people were killed or murdered during the period
between 1976 and 1983 but many Human Rights Groups state 30,000 died.