Argentinean military junta leader, Jorge Videla, has gone on trial for the deaths of 31 political prisoners. Videla is already serving a life sentence after his 1990 Carlos Menem-granted presidential pardon was overturned in 2007.
Miguel Angel Ceballos is representing the families of the disappeared, who included his own father:
"They shot him in a ravine a few blocks from the jail along with other prisoners," Ceballos said. "When they came looking for my father at the prison, he knew he would be killed. He said goodbye to his friends and left a photo of our family so they could tell us what had happened."
The body was delivered to the family shortly thereafter. The other victims, lefists between 21 and 45 years old, were killed in similar fashion — "shot while trying to escape" — in the months after the coup on March 24, 1976.
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