Antonio Domingo Bussi

Antonio Domingo Bussi (born January 17, 1926 , † November 24, 2011 ) was an Argentine army general and politician in the province of Tucumán .

Life

Early years

Bussi was born in Victoria in the Entre Ríos province. He began training at the Colegio Militar de la Nación (National Military School) in 1943 and graduated in 1947 as a lieutenant in an infantry division. This was later followed by further training in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas. A short time later he served in the army headquarters in Buenos Aires. As the commander of a regiment, he traveled to the battlefield of the Vietnam War as a military observer. The President Isabel Perón sent him to the Tucuman Province as head of a unit, where he was supposed to fight against the People's Revolutionary Army .

Tucuman

Bussi moved the secret prison in Famaillá to a quiet and secluded area and ordered the use of torture. The situation should also prevent human rights organizations from investigating the prison. The coup of March 24, 1976 had positive effects on Bussi's career. He was appointed governor of the province of Tucumáns. The already bad human rights situation was made worse. The report of the parliamentary commission on human rights violations in the province of Tucumán described the Bussi government as repressive. Union leaders, politicians, students and professors were at the mercy of the repression. According to Professor Paul H. Lewis, the majority of the disappeared were students and university faculty. Bussi was governor of the province from March 24 to 1978.

After the dictatorship

After the restoration of democracy, President Raúl Alfonsín and his law enforcement authorities dealt with the crimes during the military dictatorship. However, in 1990, before charges could be brought against Bussi, President Carlos Menem was pardoned. A number of left-wing guerrillas, who were responsible for the deaths of numerous civilians, also fell under this grace. Menem said that he wanted to overcome the bloody past and heal wounds. Bussi held the post of governor of Tucuman again from October 29, 1995 - October 29, 1999.

He was arrested on October 15, 2003 for the role he was alleged to have played in the kidnapping of Congressman Guillermo Vargas Aignasse .

The newly elected President Néstor Kirchner endeavored to prosecute the crimes committed by those in power during the dirty war. Bussi has been charged with crimes against humanity and placed under house arrest.

Bussi described himself as a victim of a political intrigue and thanked his soldiers for helping him defeat communism.

death

Bussi died on November 24, 2011 at the age of 85. He was under house arrest in Yerba Buena , Tucuman.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General in Argentina's 'dirty was' this
2. ↑ Clarín : "Ultimos secretos de Bussi: agresivo con sus pares y criticado por llorar" (Spanish)
3. ↑ Clarín (Spanish)
4. ↑ Lewis, Paul. Guerrillas and Generals: The Dirty War in Argentina . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002.
5. ↑ Nunca Mas website: CONADEP testimony ( Memento from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (span.)
6. ↑ Guerrillas and generals: the "Dirty War" in Argentina , ibid., P. 126
7. ^ "Menem Issues Pardon For Military Officers; Human Rights Abuses, Mutinies Covered," Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post , October 8, 1989
8. ^ "Top Guerrilla Is Extradited To Argentina". The New York Times . October 31, 1995
9. ^ "Pardon of Argentine Officers Angers Critics of the Military," The New York Times , October 9, 1989
10. ↑ (span.) Dictamen de procesamiento de los generales Antonio Domingo Bussi and Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Federal Appeals Court of Tucumán ( Memento of 9 October 2007 at the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: "Life in Prison for Two Retired Generals," Inter Press Service News Agency. August 28, 2008
12. ^ Murió Antonio Domingo Bussi (Spanish)
13. ↑ Murió elrepror y ex gobernador Antonio Bussi (Spanish)