Impunity Laws (Argentina)
The term "impunity laws" () refers to two laws and a series of presidential decrees enacted between 1986 and 1990, which prevented the prosecution or execution of convictions against perpetrators of crimes against humanity during the Dirty War, state terrorism carried out by the National Reorganization Process, Military Junta in the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, 1976 civil-military ''coup d'état'', which De facto, governed from 1976 to 1983. On May 3, 2017, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that allows the 2x1 law, sentences of persons found guilty of crimes against humanity to be significantly reduced, by application of the so-called "2x1 law, two for one". Background The ''1976 coup d'état'' –called "''Aries Operatio''n" by its perpetrators– was the Coup d'état, civil-military rebellion that deposed the Argentine Nation President, Isabel Perón, María Estela Martínez de Perón, on March 24, 1976. In its place, a Military Junta (Argentina, 1976), Military Government Ju ...
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Dirty War
The Dirty War () is the name used by the military junta or National Reorganization Process, civic-military dictatorship of Argentina () for its period of state terrorism 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, left-wing Peronism, or the Montoneros movement.''Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina, '' Antonius C. G. M. Robben, p. 145, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard, ''Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo,'' p. 22, Rowman & Littlefield, 1994 It is estimated that between 22,000 and 30,000 people were killed or disappeared, many of whom were impossible to formally document due to the nature of state terrorism; however, Argentine military intelligence at the time estimated that 22,000 people had been mu ...
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