They will investigate 18 soldiers for torture in Malvinas | …

Eighteen soldiers accused of having tortured their subordinates during the Falklands War will be the subject of an investigation by the Federal Justice of Rio Grande, in the province of Tierra del Fuego. This was determined by Judge Federico Calvete. It is a house started in 2007 and the declarations will be made between the end of June and the beginning of July. In the future, it is expected that six more soldiers will be summoned for the torture reported during the conflict with Great Britain in the South Atlantic.

The case created more than a decade ago has 120 complaints and 95 accused. The statements will run from June 27 to July 4 for crimes clbadified as crimes against humanity. Reported torments include stakes, burying necks, submerging naked soldiers in icy water, cattle spurs, beatings and badual abuse. The Federal Justice of Tierra del Fuego is the one that must address the cause, since the archipelago of the Malvinas, for the Argentine state, is part of that province.

After more than ten years, the cause was paralyzed until last December. The 18 army officers were informed of the call for an investigation, but no date. It was the complaints and the prosecutor's office that motivated the reactivation of the case, although at that time no date was set for receiving the statements.

The most cited 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, Pablo Emilio Hernandez, Claudio Tamareu, Jorge Arnaldo Román, Armani Caro, Sergio Alberto Guevara, Oscar Luis Contreras, Francisco Gabriel Rivero, Oscar Albarracin, Ramón Desiderio Leiva and Gustavo Adolfo Calderini.

In addition, Calvete J. decided that six other soldiers were also to testify, but they still had no date to appear in court. They are Omar Edgardo Parada, Emilio Daniel Terán, Jorge Anibal Santiago Dadelago, Jorge Luis Lopez, Horacio Francisco Vleck and Jorge Raul Masiriz.

A year ago, the Rio Grande federal prosecutor, Marcelo Rapoport, and the prosecution for crimes against humanity had requested that 26 soldiers be called to investigate. This request was accompanied by the Provincial Memory Commission and the La Plata Veterans Center.

The original file is 1777/07 "Pedro Pedro Valentín s / Public Action Crime". Over the past twelve years, he has added dozens of testimonies and evidence corroborating the existence of acts of torture on the islands during the 1982 war, committed by officers to his soldiers.