They will investigate for the first time the army accused of torture in Malvinas | Chronic

37 years after the Falklands war and 12 years after the start of the investigation in Tierra del Fuego, the Federal Judge of Ushuaia, Federico Calvete, set for the months of June and July the investigative statements of 18 former soldiers accused of torturing soldiers during the 1982 war.

Calvete, who subrogates before the Federal Court of Rio Grande where the case is ongoing, had already summoned the former military last December, but the process was delayed until the judge succeeded. to locate each of the accused to warn them of the quote

As part of the case, which began in 2007, the magistrate has set a calendar of investigations from June 27 to July 4. The requested will be Miguel Angel Guard, Belisario Gustavo Affranchino Rumi, Eduardo Luis Gbadino, Jorge Oscar Ferrante, Emilio José Samyn Duco, Jorge Guillermo Díaz, Luis Alfredo Manzur, Raúl Antonio Linares and Pablo Emilio Hernández.

They were also called to declare former soldiers Claudio Tamareu, Jorge Arnaldo Romano, Ramón Eduardo Caro, Sergio Alberto Guevara, Oscar Luis Contreras, Francisco Gabriel Rivero, Oscar Albarracín, Ramón Desiderio Leiva and Gustavo Adolfo Calderini.

The judge decided that Guard, Affranchino Rumi and Gbadino will testify on June 27, while Ferrante, Samyn Duco and Díaz will testify on June 28; Manzur, Linares and Hernández on July 1st and Tamareu, Romano and Caro on July 2nd. In turn, Guevara, Contreras and Rivero will be investigated on 3 July, and Albarracín, Leiva and Calderini on 4 July.

In addition, Calvete has resolved that "because of the combination of pieces of evidence", six other ex-soldiers mentioned in the complaints of more than one hundred ex-combatants who claimed to have been victims of "Funerals" and "Stakes", among other humiliations. It is about Omar Edgardo Stop, Emilio Daniel Terán, Jorge Aníbal Santiago Cadelago, Jorge Luís López, Horacio Francisco Vicek and Jorge Raul Masiriz.

In these cases, the magistrate has not set a date of investigation before the "be duly informed of this decree, as well as their rights", says the judicial resolution. Case No. 1777/07 entitled "Pedro Pedro Valentín and others on the crime of public action", was born from the testimonies of soldiers after the return of the war of 1982.

The complaint was lodged in 2007 with the presentation of the first 25 complaints by Pablo Vbadel, then human rights secretary of the province of Corrientes, has gained momentum thanks to the actions supported by the Center for Malvinas veterans of La Plata (CECIM), now a complainant.

"Twelve years ago, I reported to the Federal District Court of Rio Grande the torture and humiliation suffered by our combatants in the Falklands." After a complex legal process, the first dates were set for receive statements from the investigation "emphasized Vbadel.

According to the charge brought by the prosecutor of the Federal District of Río Grande Marcelo Rapoport, military authorities based on the islands "They had ordered and executed various conscripts, including known stakes and burials, in order to control the presumed indiscipline that had caused the suffering endured by soldiers due to lack of shelter and food".

According to CECIM, 105 acts of torture and 95 military mentions were reported.