Body of former Argentine dictator Videla taken to morgue
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The body of Jorge Rafael Videla, the former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "Dirty War" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, was taken to a Buenos Aires morgue on Friday (May 17), hours after he died in prison at age 87.
Videla was the first president to head the military junta that "disappeared" thousands of suspected leftists from 1976 to 1983. He spent his final years behind bars for human rights crimes including the systematic theft of babies born to political prisoners in secret torture centres.
A police vehicle carried Videla's body from the prison to the morgue where an autopsy will be performed on orders of Judge Juan Pablo Salas.
Earlier in the day, a government spokesman said Videla was believed to have died of natural causes in his jail cell.
Rights groups say up to 30,000 people were "disappeared" - a euphemism for kidnappe
The body of Jorge Rafael Videla, the former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "Dirty War" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, was taken to a Buenos Aires morgue on Friday (May 17), hours after he died in prison at age 87.
Videla was the first president to head the military junta that "disappeared" thousands of suspected leftists from 1976 to 1983. He spent his final years behind bars for human rights crimes including the systematic theft of babies born to political prisoners in secret torture centres.
A police vehicle carried Videla's body from the prison to the morgue where an autopsy will be performed on orders of Judge Juan Pablo Salas.
Earlier in the day, a government spokesman said Videla was believed to have died of natural causes in his jail cell.
Rights groups say up to 30,000 people were "disappeared" - a euphemism for kidnappe
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