Argentina: Defence of ‘dirty warriors’ has journalists up in arms
JOURNALISTS in Argentina are protesting against their editor’s call for an amnesty for crimes committed during the country’s dirty war.
Staff at the conservative La Nacion newspaper rebelled over Monday’s editorial, which sought to rewrite history and absolve those guilty of crimes against humanity.
The opinion piece decried “the lies about the 1970s and the current violations of human rights” of individuals already found guilty or under investigation by the commission investigating the crimes.
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