Omar Graffigna

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Omar Graffigna

Omar Domingo Rubens Graffigna ( April 2, 1926 - December 9, 2019 ) was an Argentine Air Force officer who played a leading role during the dictatorship in Argentina from 1976 to 1981.

Life

Graffigna was born in rural Clarke, Iriondo Department , in the Santa Fe province. He attended the military aviation school and became Chief of Staff of the Argentine Air Force after the coup in 1976. He initiated the Condor missile program .

He succeeded General Orlando Agosti as Air Force Commander in 1979. Graffigna was a supporter of the dirty war and said in December 1979 that "in a dangerously disoriented world, fate has left us only one choice: to be the spiritual support of the West."

In 1985, Graffigna was charged with the following crimes for his role during the dictatorship: kidnapping, torture, robbery, assault, coercion, deprivation of liberty, wrongdoing of property and forgery of documents. Graffigna and his successor, General Basilio Lami Dozo , were acquitted on all charges.

In 2003, Spain filed an extradition request for crimes against humanity.

Prime Minister José María Aznar withdrew this extradition request. In 2005, the Spanish Supreme Court annulled the decision of former Prime Minister Aznar and again filed a request for extradition.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Murió Graffigna, el último comandante de la dictadura que seguía vivo. Retrieved December 12, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Argentina: Missile Chronology ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nti.org
  3. ↑ McSherry, J. Patrice. Incomplete transition: military power and democracy in Argentina . St. Martin's Press, 1997.
  4. ↑ Ciancaglini, Sergio, and Granovsky, Martín. Nada más que la verdad: el juicio a las juntas . Buenos Aires: Planeta, 1995.
  5. ↑ Clarín (13 Apr 2006) (Spanish)
  6. ↑ La Nación (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Graffigna, Omar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graffigna, Omar Domingo Rubens (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine military and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Clarke (Santa Fe Province), Argentina
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2019