Bussi, Antonio Domingo. (Maj. Gen.)
Military governor of Tucuman in 1976 and 1977. Responsible for directing the torture and disappearance of more than 500 people in the province. According to several testimonials, Bussi personally took part in the killings.
Bussi could serve as the ultimate proof of how short people's memories can be; nearly twenty years after committing crimes against his own people, retired army general Bussi was elected as governor of the province of Tucuman. Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato -- who during the 1980s led the National Commision on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP) -- called Bussi's election "a horror," and pointed out that if it wasn't for the "Punto Final" amnesty law, the former general would be in jail.
Camps, Ramón J. (Gen.) (No Image)
Chief of the Buenos Aires provincial police under the Videla junta. Responsible for hundreds of disappearances and many secret detention centers over a wide area including COT 1 Martínez, Pozo de Quilmes, Pozo de Bánfield, Puesto Vasco, Arana, La Cacha, Police station no. 5, & La Plata detective Squad headquarters. Personally involved in torturing prisoners as documented in several files by the National Commission on the disappeared.
In a Feb 11, 1983 interview to James Neilson of the newspaper La Semana, Camps confessed that "no disappeared persons were still alive" and that "no one told the truth so as not to affect international economic aid" (a surprising confession of a top military man) and warned that "the struggle is not over, nor my role in it".
Camps were among those top officers, who were tried and sentenced to prison but released long before completing their jail period as a result of military pressure.
Chamorro, Ruben Jacinto. (Vice Adm.)
Alias 'Dolphin' or 'Maximo'. Chief of the Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) in Buenos Aires, one of the most notorious secret detention centers, as Navy captain. Was later promoted to Rear Admiral under the Navy commander-in-chief Emilio Massera. During his time as Navy Mechanics School commander Chamorro and his staff were responsible for thousands of tortures, lootings of detainees homes, and murders. The Navy Mechanics School came to the headlines in 1995 when retired Navy personnel who were serving in that base, started a series of confessions about throwing hundreds of live detainees from Navy planes into the Atlantic ocean.


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