JUSTICE has finally been served after 28 former officers were jailed for life today for crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship which ruled between 1976 and 1983.

The sentences were passed unanimously, with the perpetrators found guilty of a range of crimes including involvement in forced disappearances, torture and rape during the period known as the “dirty war.”

Prosecuting Judge Gloria Leon said it was “the first trial in which the situation had been completely analysed, that is the scale of the repression committed by the navy, the army, the Argentine Naval Prefecture and the Buenos Aires Police.”