Argentina: trials for Dirty War crimes strengthen democracy

More than 500 people have been found guilty of crimes against humanity in Argentina for acts committed during the last military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. Manuel Goncalves, one of the infants taken in a systematic child abduction program during the dictatorship, states that the trials are "a wonderful response from democracy, above all to the mothers and grandmothers." He says that the era of justice in Argentina has strengthened Argentine democracy more than anything else could, and that it brought hope to "those who suffered the pardons, the Full Stop Law, the Due Obedience Law." So far 1,132 people have been accused and 558 have been sentenced. teleSUR.