has convicted 11 former military, police and government officials of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s last dictatorship in a sprawling trial that heard, for the first time, about atrocities suffered by trans women.
Many of the women themselves remain disappeared. The case was also the first time in more than 300 dictatorship-related trials that a court heard fromThe panel of three judges pronounced the acts as crimes against humanity, with the president of the panel, Ricardo Basílico, stating: “These acts, in addition to being crimes against humanity, were committed within the framework of a genocide.”
The case also looked at the sexual crimes suffered by cis women who were in captivity, and a forced abortion. On Sunday, as a massive march to mark the 48th anniversary of the coup filled the core of Buenos Aires, his government released a video disputing once again the estimation used by human rights groups of 30,000 disappeared people.The figure is based on several estimations, including one made by the military itself in declassified documents in which it claimed to have disappeared or killed close to 22,000 people between 1975 and 1978, five years before the dictatorship fell.