Dirty War

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The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) was the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for the period of state-sponsored violence in Argentina from 1974 to 1983. During this campaign, military and security forces and death squads in the form of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (AAA, or Triple A) hunted down any political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with socialism, communism, left-wing Peronism, or the Montoneros movement. It is estimated that between 13,000 and 30,000 people were killed or disappeared, many of whom were impossible to formally document. A secret report from Chilean secret police DINA estimated that 22,000 people had been murdered or disappeared by 1978. During this period, at least 12,000 "detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared) were held by the National Executive Branch (Poder Ejecutivo Nacional or PEN) and kept in clandestine detention camps throughout Argentina...

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