00:01After more than seven and a half years of dictatorship and years of investigation, some of those responsible for the
00:06multiple human rights violations in Argentina were tried for the crimes against humanity they committed. Let's take a look at
00:13the following material.
00:17On April 22, 1985, the legal proceedings for crimes committed during the dictatorship began in Argentina.
00:25A civil court tried the highest ranking commanders for crimes against humanity.
00:30Over the course of more than 530 hours of hearings, 839 witnesses testified during the trials.
00:37The verdict was handed down on December 9, 1985.
00:41Jorge Rafael Videla and Emilio Eduardo Macera were sentenced to life imprisonment.
00:46Other defendants included Roberto Eduardo Viola, sentenced to 17 years in prison, Armando Lambroschini, sentenced to eight years in prison,
00:56and Orlando Ramón Agosti, sentenced to four years and six months in prison.
01:01The verdict confirmed the existence of a systematic plan of illegal repression based on the forced disappearance of people and
01:08state terrorism.
01:09Videla was the main defendant convicted in the 1985 trial.
01:15In 1990, President Carlos Menem pardoned Videla and the other convicted commanders.
01:20Beginning in 2003, during the administration of Nestor Krishner, the impunity laws and the patterns were annulled.
01:28In 2007, the Argentine courts ruled that the pattern granted to Videla was unconstitutional, ordering that he serve a life
01:36sentence in regular prison.
01:38Videla was tried and convicted in new cases, including one involving the systematic theft of babies during the dictatorship.
01:46In 2017, the largest trial for crimes committed at the Higher School of Mechanics of the Navy, ESMA, came to
01:53a close cover in 789 cases.
01:56A total of 48 people were convicted, with 29 receiving life imprisonment and 19 receiving lesser sentences.
02:04In July 2025, Federal Judge Ariel Lijo ordered the prosecution of 34 repressors for crimes committed at the ESMA,
02:11including the new cases not previously tried, according to human rights organizations.
02:16More than 1,500 people have been convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the dictatorship.
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