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De Bonafini said it's time for Argentines to speak out against what she called a threatened comeback of the same forces that supported right-wing leaders from the dictatorship era such as Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, Benito Mussolini and Alfredo...
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Argentina long before those countries were able to handle their own human rights trials. De Bonafini said it's time for Argentines to speak out against what she called a threatened comeback of the same forces that supported right-wing leaders from the...
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Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, who tried to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, sits in the dock at the start of his trial at the Supreme Court in Madrid in this January 17, 2012 file photo. Spain's Supreme Court has found... View Photo »
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Argentina: Spain's prosecution of crusading judge Garzon an assault on human rights worldwide
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Argentina long before those countries were able to handle their own human rights trials. De Bonafini said it's time for Argentines to speak out against what she called a threatened comeback of the same forces that supported right-wing leaders from the...
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De Bonafini said it's time for Argentines to speak out against what she called a threatened comeback of the same forces that supported right-wing leaders from the dictatorship era such as Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, Benito Mussolini and Alfredo...
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Garzon was tried for ordering an investigation in 2008 into the fate of more than 100,000 people reported missing during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, and during General Francisco Franco's rule from 1939 to 1975. He is accused of violating...
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Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, who tried to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, sits in the dock at the start of his trial at the Supreme Court in Madrid in this January 17, 2012 file photo. Spain's Supreme Court has found... View Photo »
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Garzon was tried for ordering an investigation in 2008 into the fate of more than 100,000 people reported missing during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, and during General Francisco Franco's rule from 1939 to 1975. He is accused of violating...
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In an editorial last weekend, the New York Times denounced a decision to prosecute the judge in a separate case, in which he was investigating atrocities committed during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, as “an offense against justice and history.”
About Francisco Franco
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Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde, Salgado y Pardo de Andrade (born 4 December 1892 in Ferrol, died 20 November 1975 in Madrid), commonly known as Francisco Franco (pronounced [fɾanˈθisko ˈfɾaŋko]) or Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was the dictator and Head of State of Spain from October 1936, as de facto regent of the... Full Article
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