Former de facto president Jorge Rafael Videla admitted for the first time that the last military dictatorship killed “seven or eight thousand people,” and said that they made the bodies disappear to “avoid demonstrations, both inside and outside the country.”
The book written by journalist Ceferino Reato entitled Final Resolution (Disposición Final), which will be released today, is based on a 20-hour interview the writer conducted with Videla between October 2011 and March 2012 at the Campo de Mayo federal prison.
The former de facto president says in the book published by Random House Mondadori that the 1976 coup d’état “was a mistake” because “it was not necessary to fight subversion.” Videla, who has been convicted for committing crimes against humanity, referred to the people who were killed as “the price we had to pay to win the war against subversion.”
Estela Barnes de Carlotto, president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, regretted yesterday Videla’s lack of remorse and repudiated the fact that “he boasts” about kidnapping and making people disappear.
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