Immunity struck down; pardons next? [UPDATE: What a concept!]

i posted last week about the repeal of the laws granting immunity to the military and security officers associated with argentina's "dirty war" in the 70's and 80's... now, there is a push to have the pardons granted to those involved overturned as well, coming from, of all places, the military...

Human rights groups in Argentina were still celebrating a Supreme Court decision that struck down the amnesty laws protecting military human rights abusers when a call for the revocation of the pardon of the former commanders of the 1976-1983 dictatorship came Wednesday from an unexpected quarter: the army brass.

"The next step must be the annulment of the pardons," the army chief, General Roberto Bendini, said Wednesday, the day after the Supreme Court declared the two amnesty laws passed in the mid-1980s unconstitutional.

Bendini said it was necessary "to try and convict those who were ultimately responsible" for the gross human rights violations committed by the de facto regime.

[UPDATE]

i don't know how i missed this juicy quote the first time around but i did...

"It would be unacceptable for the junior officers to be thrown into prison while the high-ranking officers, who held the greatest responsibility," go free, [General Roberto Bendini,] said.

now, THERE'S a novel idea...! accountability...! DAMN...! what won't they think of next...?

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