Miguel Dalmao

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Miguel Ángel Dalmao Alvez (born January 16, 1951 in Salto Department ; † December 29, 2014 in Montevideo ) was a general in the Uruguayan army. He was the first member of the Fuerzas Armadas del Uruguay to be imprisoned for his role during the military dictatorship .

Life

Military career

Dalmao began his officer training at the military school (Escuela Militar) on March 1, 1970 and successfully completed it as a pioneer officer on September 15, 1973. The topic of his doctoral thesis was titled “Con Libertad no ofendo ni temo” (meaning: “With freedom, I neither offend anyone, nor am I afraid”). As a young officer, he served in the Batallón de Ingenieros de Combate Nº 3 ( Combat Engineer Battalion 3), in the Batallón de Trasmisiones Nº 1 (Telecommunications Battalion 1), in the Pioneer Service Department of the Estado Mayor del Ejército (Staff of the Army) and in the Batallón de Ingenieros de Combate Nº 1 . This was followed in 1980 by training with the telecommunications company and at the Escuela de Armas y Servicios . On February 1, 1981, he was promoted to captain and served again in the Batallón de Trasmisiones Nº 1 before he was transferred to the Escuela de Armas y Servicios as a teaching officer for lieutenants .

In 1985 he was promoted to major . This was followed by the commanding course and the staff officer course at the Instituto Militar de Estudios Superiores (IMES) until 1987. After serving as deputy commander of the Batallón de Comunicaciones No. 1 and then in Batallón de Apoyo y Servicios de Comunicaciones Nº 2 ( Command Support Battalion 2) he was promoted to Teniente Coronel and commander of the Comunicaciones del Ejército (Army Telecommunications School). This was followed by assignments in the Brigada de Comunicaciones Nº 1 (telecommunications brigade 1) as chief of staff , then as deputy brigade commander and, after promotion to the coronel, as stage manager for telecommunications equipment. This was followed by assignments in teaching at IMES, as head of the telecommunications service department in the Estado Mayor del Ejército , as commander of the Brigada de Comunicaciones Nº 1 , as head of department 2 in the Estado Mayor del Ejército , as inspector of the telecommunications force in the Comando General del Ejército (General Command of the Army), as a military attaché in the Kingdom of Spain and as deputy commander of the Comando de Apoyo Logístico del Ejército (logistics support command of the army).

He was appointed general on February 1, 2005. From August 16, 2005 to January 2008, he was inspector of the medical services of the armed forces. In February 2008 he became commander of the IV Army Division.

Dalmao was in charge of the training of the captains at the Brazilian Army Officer School, the IMES staff and the Centro de Altos Estudios Nacionales (C.AL.EN). From 1996 to 2001 he was the representative of the Uruguayan Army at the Latin American Conference on Communication.

Sentenced in the Sabalsagaray case

In 1974 he and Colonel José Nelson Chialanza were believed to have been responsible for the death of the communist Nibia Sabalsagaray , a literature professor, in military custody , who according to the official version died on June 29, 1974 by hanging in her cell. Both were serving in military intelligence at the time. The charges were possible because in 2009 the Supreme Court ruled that an amnesty law, the so-called Ley de Caducidad , was inapplicable to members of the military and guerrillas. On May 8, 2013, Dalmao, who was already retired and in poor health, was sentenced to 28 years in prison.

criticism

The condemnation of Dalmao is controversial. So there were no reports that could prove a violent killing of Sabalsagaray. The verdict was based solely on witness statements. It is also criticized that the then 23-year-old Dalmao with the rank of lieutenant was very low in the hierarchy of command and that none of his superiors was also accused. In June 2011, then Defense Minister Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro doubted Dalmao's guilt. The journalist Gerardo Sotelo pointed out in December 2014 that there were no other allegations about the use of physical violence or torture about Dalmao during the years of the dictatorship (1973–1985). Coronel Guillermo Cedrés , president of the Círculo Militar, said after Dalmao's death that Nibia Sabalsagaray's suicide was more likely than Dalmao's fault for her death.

death

Dalmao died in the military hospital in late 2014. He was married with five children.

Awards

Web links

  • Jürgen Vogt: The military have to go to court. Consequences of the dictatorship in Uruguay. In: the daily newspaper . April 13, 2011, accessed April 14, 2011 (History of the Uruguayan Amnesty Law, the repeal of which made the trial of Miguel Dalmao possible).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uruguayan general in custody. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 9, 2010, accessed November 10, 2010 .
  2. ↑ uruguayescribe.com ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Grail. Dalmao: Es el último procesado por delitos cometidos durante la dictadura , Uruguay Escribe Noticias, 10 November 2010.
  3. ↑ Juez se dispone resolver si procesa al general Dalmao , El País of November 4, 2010
  4. ↑ Fiscal descarta intencionalidad política en procesamiento del general Miguel Dalmao , El País of November 9, 2010 (Spanish)
  5. ↑ General charged in Uruguay with murder during dictatorship , AFP, November 8, 2010
  6. ↑ Uruguay: General Condemned , Junge Welt , May 10, 2013.
  7. ↑ Muere en Hospital Militar el general retirado Miguel Dalmao, procesado por homicidio de Sabalsagaray , LaRed 21, December 30, 2014.
  8. ↑ Gabriel Pereyra: La muerte del general Dalmao, una llaga en el Estado de Derecho ( Memento from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , El Observador , December 30, 2014.
  9. ↑ Círculo Militar lamentó que Dalmao falleciera recluido , Montevideo Portal, December 29, 2014.
  10. ↑ Murió el general retirado Miguel Dalmao in El País of December 29, 2014, accessed on December 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Dalmao, Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dalmao, Miguel Ángel; Dalmao Alvez, Miguel Ángel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan general
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Salto Department , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2014
Place of death Montevideo , Uruguay