Ex-Head of Argentina Air Force Sentenced in 'Dirty War' Case

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Ex-Head of Argentina Air Force Sentenced in 'Dirty War' Case

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA, ASSOCIATED PRESS BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Sep 8, 2016, 3:55 PM ET

A court in Argentina on Thursday sentenced the former head of the country's air force on Thursday to 25 years in prison for the abduction and torture of an activist couple during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.

The court sentenced 90-year-old Omar Graffigna for abducting Patricia Roisinblit and Jose Manuel Perez Rojo in 1978.

Roisinblit was pregnant when she, Perez Rojo, and their 15-month-old daughter were taken to a clandestine detention center. The girl was handed over to his paternal grandmother, while the couple was forcibly disappeared.

The plaintiffs in the case included Patricia Roisinblit's mother, Rosa de Roisinblit, who is the vice president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights group, and Guillermo Perez Roisinblit, the son Roisinblit gave birth to during detention. He was raised by Francisco Gomez, who has served time for stealing Perez when he was an infant.

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[forest444]

1. And Graffigna was one of the "moderates" in the dictatorship.

He was also, incidentally, head of the OVNI Division - the Argentine counterpart to the former NICAP bureau in the U.S. Air Force.

If they truly are out there, our off-world friends must have been appalled with what Graffigna and his colleagues in the dictatorship were doing.

Thank you for posting this, Eugene.

LBN perhaps? (I'll leave that up to you)

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's tremendous they finally did this. He & the others lived for ages thinking they were home free.

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Omar Graffigna



His victims whose lives he stole, after torture:

Jose Manuel Perez Rojo and Patricia Roisinblit were seized by the military on 6 October 1978 [/center]