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Dirty War (Argentina, 1976-83) (view source)
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Many people, 7,158<ref>"The justification for the Dirty War was the armed actions of the Montoneros and the ERP. From 1969 to 1979, there were 239 kidnappings and 1,020 murders by the guerrillas. During the same period, however, the military kidnapped 7,844 and murdered 7,850." The Psychology of Genocide and Violent Oppression: A Study of Mass Cruelty from Nazi Germany to Rwanda, Richard Morrock, William Marchak, p. 184, McFarland, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1621505-hablan-de-30000-desaparecidos-y-saben-que-es-falso Hablan de 30.000 desaparecidos y saben que es falso]</ref><ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1464650-videla-admitio-que-la-dictadura-mato-a-7-u-8-mil-personas Videla admitió la muerte y desaparición de "7 u 8 mil personas"]</ref>-13,000,<ref>[http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2003/10/06/p-00801.htm Una duda histórica: no se sabe cuántos son los desaparecidos]</ref> both Peronist and Marxist guerrillas as well as civilian opponents of the Argentinian military regime were "disappeared". By the end of 1978, 22,000 thousand Argentinians (according to an often-quoted Chilean military intelligence report) had been taken to secret government detention centers where they were killed or eventually freed under international diplomatic pressure.
Many people, 7,158<ref>"The justification for the Dirty War was the armed actions of the Montoneros and the ERP. From 1969 to 1979, there were 239 kidnappings and 1,020 murders by the guerrillas. During the same period, however, the military kidnapped 7,844 and murdered 7,850." The Psychology of Genocide and Violent Oppression: A Study of Mass Cruelty from Nazi Germany to Rwanda, Richard Morrock, William Marchak, p. 184, McFarland, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1621505-hablan-de-30000-desaparecidos-y-saben-que-es-falso Hablan de 30.000 desaparecidos y saben que es falso]</ref><ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1464650-videla-admitio-que-la-dictadura-mato-a-7-u-8-mil-personas Videla admitió la muerte y desaparición de "7 u 8 mil personas"]</ref>-13,000,<ref>[http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2003/10/06/p-00801.htm Una duda histórica: no se sabe cuántos son los desaparecidos]</ref> both Peronist and Marxist guerrillas as well as civilian opponents of the Argentinian military regime were "disappeared". By the end of 1978, 22,000 thousand Argentinians (according to an often-quoted Chilean military intelligence report) had been taken to secret government detention centers where they were killed or eventually freed under international diplomatic pressure.
Terence Roehrig in his book ''The Prosecution of Former Military Leaders in Newly Democratic Nations: The Cases of Argentina, Greece, and South Korea'' (McFarland & Company, 2001) estimates that of the disappeared, ''"at least 10,000 were involved in various ways with the guerrillas"''. Argentinian Justice Minister Ricardo Gil Lavedra, who formed part of the 1985 tribunal for the [[Trial of the Juntas]], later went on record saying, ''"I sincerely believe that the majority of the victims of the illegal repression were guerrilla militants"''.<ref>Amar al Enemigo, Javier Vigo Leguizamón, p. 68, Ediciones Pasco, 2001</ref>
The Montoneros in a statement issued in 1984 acknowledged having lost 5,000 guerrillas killed<ref>"Firmenich alleged that some 5,000 Montoneros had fallen during the period of repression." Yearbook on International Communist Affairs Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, pg. 48, Stanford University, 1985</ref>, and the Marxist–Leninist People's Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo or ERP) in 2007 admitted the deaths of some 5,000 of their own armed fighters<ref>[http://www.cedema.org/ver.php?id=2713 A 32 AÑOS DE LA CAÍDA EN COMBATE DEL COMANDANTE MARIO ROBERTO SANTUCHO Y DE LA DIRECCIÓN HITÓRICA DEL PRT-ERP]</ref>. Mario Firmenich, the commander of the Montoneros, in a radio interview in late 2001 from Spain said that, ''"In a country that experienced a civil war, everybody has blood on their hands"''.<ref>[http://www.lr21.com.uy/mundo/51817-firmenich-dijo-que-no-mato-a-nadie-inutilmente?utm_source=redirects&utm_medium=www.larepublica.com.uy&utm_campaign=301_Redirects Firmenich dijo que no mató "a nadie inútilmente"]</ref>
The left-wing guerrillas and their support base, were responsible for causing at least 6,000 casualties among the military, police forces and civilian population, according to a [[National Geographic Magazine]] article published in the mid-1980s.<ref>National Geographic, Volume 170, p. 247, National Geographic Society, 1986</ref>
The left-wing guerrillas and their support base, were responsible for causing at least 6,000 casualties among the military, police forces and civilian population, according to a [[National Geographic Magazine]] article published in the mid-1980s.<ref>National Geographic, Volume 170, p. 247, National Geographic Society, 1986</ref>