►ae*sa.a#&.S£ = t* r-> a. -** o hk o nr* ~<*.C £52 THE TIMES Galtieri joins two former 31.12.83 Presidents indicted for murder and treason "“SS2K- wm^mm KKJWWS.WThe decree was seen as an Former President Galtien of effort to fulfill a repealed Argentina, who was also the ' campaign pledge by Scnor Army commander, and the mmi& [ Alfonsin to try those respon- Navy and Air Force com- g||g» siblc for the military's bloody manders who helped him to campaign against leftist terror- plan last year's ill-fated Falk- ism in the mid and late 1970s. lands invasion, were arraigned More than 6.000 Argentines yesterday on charges of murder. arc believed to have been torture, and illegal privation of kidnapped and murdered by liberty by Argentina's highest tfS&raggy state security and armed forces military court. The new President's initiat- The court appearances came ivcs which include a corn- one day after four former armed fg|a£jg| mission to investigate the fate services commanders, including o|- lhe disappeared and special former Presidents Jorge Videla General Galtieri: In the legislation to facilitate the and Roberto Viola, presented dock with junta colleagues investigation of military person- themselves before the Supreme ncl by civilian courts, have Council ot the Armed Forces j$ former jsjavv Commander prompted a broadening perusal here. They are accused of the £mili0 Massera, who is under by Argentines of their country’s same crimes bv the military s -preventive arrest” in a Buenos bloody past, new comniander-in-chici. the ^;res naval jail pending a Court-ordered exhumations new civilian President, Schor cjvj|jan court investigation of from mass graves of the bodies Raul Alfonsin. the mysterious disappearance in of presumed victims of state In all. nine former service 1977 'Qf a Buenos Aires man security forces were due to have commanders, comprising the believed to have been his taken place yesterday in Buenos first three of four military juntas busines oartner. Aires. ruling Argentina since the The courts matial proceed- in apparent effort to keep a armed forces seized power here ings. begun on Thurday, were politically even-handed in 1976. arc being tried in the ordered in a special decree two approach to past civil strife, Government-ordered courts weeks ago by President Alfon- > Schor Aifonsin's Government . martial. sin,the 56-ycar-old leader of the announced on Thursday the One of the two commanders mainly middle class Radical formation of a special anti-ter- who has not \et beet arraigned Party, who w-as inaugurated on rorist securitv force r 51 / 'll FINANCIAL TIMES Court charges Galtieri junta BY DAVID WELNA IN BUENOS AIRES 31.12.83 GENERAL Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentines after the 1976 mill- arraigned for their handling of the former Argentine President, tary takeover. the Falklands conflict. The proceedings are to con- was yesterday charged with ordered by Argentina’s recently tinue next month despite the murder ana torture in sum- inauguratea civilian President traditional suspension of legal mary court martial before the gr r3ui Alfonsin. He signed activity during the forthcoming Supreme Council of the Armed into law this week the repeal of summer holidays here. The Forces. The two other members an amnesty law decreed by the verdicts can be appealed against 1 of the ruling military junta former military government in civilian courts, where new during the Falkland Islands which protected members of the evidence can be introduced, conflict, Brig Basilio Lami Dozo, armed forces from prosecution In a related development the former Air Force com- for the disappearances. Two former President General Rey- mander, and Admiral Jorge former presidents, General naldo Bignone failed to appear Anaya, the former Navy com- Jorge Videla and General in civilian court on Thursday mander, were also charged. Roberto Viola, were charged on where he had been accused of They, and the six other mem- Thursday in the same proceed- illegal privation of liberty in bers of the three successive ings. relation to the disappearance of three-man juntas which ruled This is the second summary a physicist five years ago. Gen between 1976 and 1982, have court martial that General Gal- Bignone’s lawyer told the court been so charged for having tieri and his Air Force and that the former President was allegedly presided over the dis- Navy commanders have faced unable to testify because his appearance of more than 7,000 this month, having already been wife was ill. 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Bri­ tain has a treaty commitment to keep nuclear weapons out of the South Atlantic.” Mr Dalyell has tabled i further questions to Mr Hesel-1 O. tine asking the cost to public ■ funds of enabling the Scottish television company to film life on the Falklands. “ This company is des­ 1 perately short of resources. It ! is hard to imagine that it met all the costs of this pro­ gramme, ncluding travel tc the Falklands, use of heli­ copters for photographing pen­ guins, and other facilities on the islands,” he said. i i V THE Argentina digs up its past v\ TIMES From Our Correspondent, Buenos Aires i 30.12.83 Argentine courts arc literally results of the investigations and Wednesday that 41 more digging' up their country’s growing calls for inquiries at unidentified bodies of Argen­ bloody pasf as judicially- other graveyards, it would seem tines “killed in confrontations ’ ,> ordered exhumations of mass the courts have only begun to with security forces” were - \ graves in several cemeteries scratch the surface on burials concealed in mass graves in a have in the past week yielded during the “dirty war” against local cemetery. the bodies of more than 30 terrorists, Television, which was presumed victims of security The Mayor of Almirante heavily censored under military forces. Brown revealed on Tuesday rule, has been replete with The exhumations are part of that 14 of the 15 bodies graphic reporting of the a wave of court investigations exhumed in his city were exhumations. News reports this into the fate of more than 6,000 without hands, evidently, cut week included footage of grave­ Argentines who vanished dur- off he said, to prevent yard workers packing large ing the past seven years of identification, plastic bags with bones and recently-concluded military He said three of the skulls taking them for identification. rule. exhumed had gunshot holes in Most bodies found so far in Acting with vigour after the them, while many skulls these and earlier exhumations inauguration of President Raul showed signs of having received have been discovered in groups Alfonsin’s civilian adminis- severe beatings. He estimated of about a half dozen in tration on December 10, the that the cemetery would yield paupers’ graves or beneath legal courts have had graves dug up between 60 and 70 similarly- graves.