Chronicle of the historic trial held between April and December 1985 against the leaders of the last Argentine dictators | dG1fcHVsVU8wdlhLdjQ
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00:00I declare open the act for the realization of the hearing scheduled and that follows the next general officers of the armed forces in a situation of retreat.
00:12Judges, the Argentine community in particular, but also the universal legal consciousness, have entrusted me with the august mission of presenting myself before you to claim justice.
00:26Judges, I respectfully tell you that you are not qualified to act in replacement of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
00:35More than a process to the military juntas, it would have to be to the valiant Argentine society.
00:41My wife went to see General Luce when I was missing and told him, look, ma'am, if I ask for him, it is worse.
00:48The order to annihilate authorized to torture the detainees to obtain information and even to physically eliminate them.
00:59I am a soldier, they determined me a white man and I acted the weapons.
01:06With hooded officers and all or many of them outside the law.
01:13He put needles on me and then he passed the needles, a session that must have lasted about four hours because he did it very slowly.
01:21The girl tells me it was with a blowtorch and cigarettes.
01:26They put a gun to my vagina, I was pregnant.
01:29I will wait serenely, with spiritual tranquility and unconsciousness, the judgment of God and history to my conduct.
01:41My son also deserved a trial, my son deserved this trial. Why not?
01:47The enemy is really spreading fear because they know that the Armed Forces of today are capable of defeating them as the Armed Forces of yesterday were.
02:02Gentlemen judges, beyond all justification, all forgiveness, all amnesty, history will not absolve them.