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Thread ID: 7615 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-06-25
2003-06-25 15:15 | User Profile
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Argentine general jailed for racist remarks
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Suarez Mason tried to defend his comments One of the most notorious figures from Argentina's former military dictatorship has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after being found guilty of making anti-Semitic remarks.
Former general Guillermo Suarez Mason was found guilty of racial discrimination for comments he made to a magazine in 1996.
He said he did not trust Jews at the time of the dictatorship that left thousands dead and missing.
Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide sentenced Suarez Mason: "For having justified the crime, for having made an exaltation of the torture and of the activity that developed in the last genocidal dictatorship that terrorised the country and for the discrimination in the Jewish community."
Suarez Mason, 78, known as the "Butcher of Olimpo" is accused of human rights abuses during Argentina's so-called dirty war during the 1976-83 dictatorship.
He is wanted in Germany in connection with the murder of a German student Elisabeth Kaesemann who was kidnapped in Argentina in 1977.
Suarez Mason was also found guilty in his absence for kidnapping and killing eight Italians during Argentina's military regime. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The ex-general tried to defend himself in court saying: "Jews are Argentines but a different group."
But in the comments he made to a magazine in 1996, Suarez Mason said: "I am not an anti-Semite. I know Jews well, which is different. I am wary of them."
The ex-general is currently under house arrest in Buenos Aires on charges of kidnapping children during the dirty war.
It is thought that about 300 children were taken from their mothers and given to the families of army and police personnel for adoption.
Human rights groups say the babies' parents were then killed.
2003-06-25 15:46 | User Profile
3.5 years for anti-Semitic remarks?
Evidently Argentina has the Zionist talons dug deep.
Whatever happened to freedom of speech, freedom of belief, freedom of association?
This is an outrage.
2003-06-26 16:50 | User Profile
Free speech anyone? I was going to post this same new... I'm glad to see that someone else was informed too. Argentina is said to be the first step of the Zionist plans to stablish themselves in the "Patagonia" (southern part of South America)... :( "Don't cry for me argentina" :( :(
About the "kidnapped kids".... i'm not certain about that info, but., if that really happen, I'm glad that the kids grew up with good parents instead of the commies that gave birth to them :th: