Operation Condor: Argentina's ex-junta leader jailed

Argentina's last dictator General Reynaldo Bignone has been sentenced to 20-years in jail for crimes committed under a programme called Operation Condor.

88-year-old Bignone and 14 other army officers were found guilty of conspiring to run an international death squad.

The plan saw South America's military regimes come together to kill and kidnap left-wing opponents during the 1970s and 80s.

Human rights activists have hailed the verdict. Laura Elgueta Diaz, a relative of one of the many d…
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