Falklands War: Soldiers accused of torturing will be the subject of an investigation

The judge, Federico Calvete, fixed for the months of June and July the statements of the investigation to 18 ex-soldiers accused of having tortured soldiers during the 1982 conflict.

May 3, 2019

It's 37 years of the Falklands War and finally a cause that started 12 years ago in Tierra del Fuego and begins to emerge. This Friday, May 3, Ushuaia Federal Judge Federico Calvete, fixed for the months of June and July the statements to 18 ex-soldiers accused of torturing soldiers during the 1982 conflict.

Calvete had already summoned the ex-military last December, but the process was delayed until the justice of the court was able to locate each of the defendants to inform them of the summons, announced Friday. Telam judicial sources.

In the context of the case that began in 2007 in the federal court of the fuegian city of Rio Grande, the judge set a calendar of investigations from June 27 to July 4.

The investigators are Miguel Angel Guard, Belisario Gustavo Affranchino Rumi, Eduardo Luis Gbadino, Jorge Oscar Ferrante, Emilio Jose Samyn Duco, Jorge Guillermo Diaz, Luis Alfredo Manzur, Raul Antonio Linares and Pablo Emilio Hernandez.

The ex-soldiers Claudio Tamareu, Jorge Arnaldo Romano, Ramon Eduardo Caro, Sergio Alberto Guevara, Oscar Luis Contreras, Gabriel Gabriel Rivero, Oscar Albarracin, Ramon Desiderio Leiva and Gustavo Adolfo Calderini were also called to declare themselves.

According to Calvete, "due to the presence of evidence", it is appropriate to investigate six other soldiers mentioned in the complaints of more than one hundred veterans who have declared have been victims of "burials" and of "burials"; "stakes", among other vexations.

It is Omar Edgardo Parada, Emilio Daniel Terán, Jorge Aníbal Santiago Cadelago, Jorge Luís López, Horacio Francisco Vlcek and Jorge Raúl Masiriz.

The Falkland Islands veterans in La Plata (CECIM) celebrated the judicial resolution and considered it "a historical fact". And they add in a statement: "Burying, immersing naked soldiers in icy water, burying soldiers up to the neck, bells with campaign phones, beatings, badual violence and other tortures, aggravated in some cases by a strong antisemitic bias of practices for which Justice will require the 18 soldiers. "

To conclude from the Center, they celebrated: "Since the advancement of justice, a new way of understanding what is the Falklands war will be inscribed in history, beyond which, in reality, many armed forces continue to support negacionismo ".