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The so-called death flights (Spanish: vuelos de la muerte) were a form of forced disappearance routinely practiced during the Argentine "Dirty War," theorized by Admiral Luis Maria Mendia. A forced disappearance occurs when an organization forces a person to vanish from Public view either by Murder or by simple Sequestration. This article refers to the Argentine Dirty War for the British film of the same name see Dirty War (film. Luis María Mendía (1925- May 2007 was the Argentine Chief of Naval Operations in 1976-77 with the rank of Vice-admiral. Victims of death flights were first drugged into a stupor, hustled aboard planes or helicopters, stripped naked and pushed into the Río de la Plata or the Atlantic Ocean to drown. The Río de la Plata ( Spanish: " Silver River" &mdash which is often referred to in English-speaking countries as the River Plate Extrajudicial killings have been conducted in manners substantively similar to those of the Argentine death flights, during the 1957 Battle of Algiers, the Vietnam War and in other conflicts. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

1 Death flights during the Argentine Dirty War
2 Use in other conflicts
- 2.1 Algeria
- 2.2 Vietnam
3 References
4 See also

Death flights during the Argentine Dirty War

According to the testimony of Adolfo Scilingo, convicted by a Spanish court of crimes against humanity under the doctrine of universal jurisdiction in 2005, there were 180-200 death flights in the years 1977 and 1978; Scilingo confessed to participating in two such flights, with 13 and 17 people respectively. Adolfo Scilingo (born 1947 is a former Argentine naval officer who is currently serving 30 years (the legally applied limit although he was sentenced to 640 years Universal jurisdiction or universality principle is a controversial principle in International law whereby States claim criminal Jurisdiction ^[1]

As an added twist, victims were sometimes made to dance for joy in celebration of the freedom that awaited them. In an earlier interview, in 1996, Scilingo said, "They were played lively music and made to dance for joy, because they were going to be transferred to the south. [. . . ] After that, they were told they had to be vaccinated due to the transfer, and they were injected with Pentothal. The fictional truth drug Hyoscine-pentothal does not describe real pentothal accurately And shortly after, they became really drowsy, and from there we loaded them onto trucks and headed off for the airfield. "^[2]

Scilingo says that the Argentine Navy is "still hiding what happened during the dirty war". The Navy of the Argentine Republic or Armada of the Argentine Republic ( Armada de la República Argentina — ARA is the Navy ^[3]

Use in other conflicts

Algeria

Death Flights was used during the Algerian War by the French Paratroopers in 10th Parachute Division under Jacques Massu during the Battle of Algiers. Jacques Émile Massu ( 5 May, 1908 &ndash 26 October, 2002) was a French general who fought in World War II, First As the corpses sometimes came back to the surface, they began to attach concrete blocks to their feet. These victims were known as "Bigeard's shrimps" ("crevettes Bigeard"), after one of the para commanders, Marcel Bigeard. Marcel Bigeard (born 14 February, 1916) is a French military officer who fought in World War II, Indochina and Algeria ^[4] ^[5]^[6]

Vietnam

Similar expulsions of live prisoners from helicopters took place during the Vietnam War,^[7] and were alluded to in the movie Blue Thunder. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Blue Thunder is a 1983 Feature film that features a high-tech Helicopter of the same name

References

^ Spain tries Argentine ex-officer.
^ Macabre new details emerge about Argentina's 'dirty war'.
^ 'Death flight' captain says Argentine navy is hiding horrors.
^ Film testimony by Paul Teitgen, Jacques Duquesne and Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc on the INA archive website. Jacques Duquesne may refer to Jacques Duquesne (footballer, Belgian footballer Jacques DuQuesne of Swordsman comics Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc (born in Bordeaux, 11 February 1922) is a French former member of the Resistance, then a military officer
^ Des guerres d’Indochine et d’Algérie aux dictatures d’Amérique latine, interview with Marie-Monique Robin by the Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH, Human Rights League), January 10, 2007
^ Prise de tête Marcel Bigeard, un soldat propre ?, L'Humanité, June 24, 2000 (French)
^ Des guerres d’Indochine et d’Algérie aux dictatures d’Amérique latine, interview with Marie-Monique Robin by the Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH, Human Rights League), January 10, 2007

Contents

Death flights during the Argentine Dirty War

Use in other conflicts

Algeria

Vietnam

References

See also