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Dirty War (Argentina, 1976-83) (view source)
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Military victory was achieved after three years of limited open fighting and a stream of kidnappings, disappearances and imprisonments that brought a total breakdown of due process for those suspected of being connected with the guerrillas. By June 1978 the guerrillas were all but eliminated, and the military junta declared victory. By 1980 the last vestiges of the terrorist groups had died out, and the disappearances had stopped.
Military victory was achieved after three years of limited open fighting and a stream of kidnappings, disappearances and imprisonments that brought a total breakdown of due process for those suspected of being connected with the guerrillas. By June 1978 the guerrillas were all but eliminated, and the military junta declared victory. By 1980 the last vestiges of the terrorist groups had died out, and the disappearances had stopped.
==Victims==
Everyone was viewed with suspicion and tens of thousands were detained at one point: union leaders who agitated for wage increases and militancy in the US and European-owned car plants in Argentina, students who were members of the ''Unión de Estudiantes Secundarios'' (Union of High School Students or UES), journalists like [[Rodolfo Jorge Walsh]] that were not fearful of the dictatorship, human-rights lawyers who were part of suspect professions, young communists, socialists, nuns and priests that had ties with the [[Third World Priest Movement]]. And family members or friends of any of them; people that financially supported them or hid them from the military.
==Military junta's downfall==
==Military junta's downfall==