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The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for its period of state terrorism [12][10][13] in Argentina [14][15] from 1974 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor.
- 1974-1982
- Argentina
5 days ago · Dirty War, infamous campaign waged from 1976 to 1983 by Argentina’s military dictatorship against suspected left-wing political opponents in which an estimated 10,000 to 30,000 citizens were killed, many of whom were ‘disappeared.’
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During the Argentine government’s seven-year (1976-83) campaign against suspected dissidents and subversives, often known as the “Dirty War,” between 10,000 and 30,000 people were killed, including opponents of the government as well as innocent victims.
- ‘Dozens and Dozens’ of Murders
- The UK’s Ulster Defence Regiment and Loyalist Paramilitaries
- A ‘Moderate Line’ Towards Paramilitaries
- The Legal Paramilitary Group
- The Police and The UVF
- Patterns of Collusion
Lord Stevens, a former senior British police officer who led three government investigations into the security forces in Northern Ireland, has stated that the British recruited thousands of agents and informants during the Troubles, and that just one of them may be linked to “dozens and dozens” of murders. During his investigations, Stevens and his...
Established in 1970, the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) became the largest regiment in the British army consisting of about 7,000 full-time and part-time soldiers in the 1970s. Recruited from the local population in Northern Ireland, it was one of the UK’s main forces focused on defeating the IRA. Files from the early 1970s showthat neatly prepared ...
As the conflict wore on, the British authorities were increasingly tolerant of soldiers in the UDR also being members of loyalist paramilitary groups. An MOD documentin 1972 noted that the British should follow a “moderate line towards UDA supporters”. This was described as providing a “safety valve” for extreme Protestant tendencies. It suggested ...
Throughout the conflict, the consistent argument from the Irish government in Dublin and the moderate nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland was that the paramilitary UDA should be proscribed. Yet, as its activity continued throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the UDA was permitted to recruit and operate openlyand remained a ...
There is also evidence of systemic collusion between the Northern Irish police and the two main paramilitary organisations, the UVF and the UDA. British documents from 1975 noted that there were “certain elements in the police” who were very close to the UVF. One former sergeant in the police wrote in a 1999 affidavitthat “collusion” was endemic. A...
The Pat Finucane Centre and others have deduced from our research that the targets of collusion changed over the decades from being civilians not involved in the conflict in the 1970s to active republicans and their families in the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence for this comes in three recently published books: Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Irelan...
Mar 14, 2018 · The Dirty War was the Argentinian Military government campaign against communist and leftist guerrillas and their supporters in Argentina in the 1970s and 80s.. The use of dirty tactics by the military government led by Videla has led to the term ‘dirty war’.
Mar 7, 2019 · The military dictatorship that resulted called itself the “Process of National Reorganization,” or “Proceso,” and dubbed its activities the Dirty War. But the war wasn’t with outside forces:...
Oct 28, 2020 · What's the background? After a military junta led by Gen Jorge Videla seized power in Argentina on 24 March 1976, it began a campaign to wipe out left-wing opponents. Some 30,000 people...
