The Flight: Confessions of an Argentinian Dirty Warrior - Hardcover

Verbitsky, Horacio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565840097 ISBN 13: 9781565840096

Publisher: The New Press, 1996

Synopsis

A retired Argentine naval officer candidly discusses his personal participation in the harsh treatment of Argentine dissidents, detailing the military's systematic campaign of torture and murder, the role of the Church, and his own feelings about his behavior.

About this title

Synopsis:

Incensed by what he perceived as injustices in the treatment of former members of Argentine's military dictatorship, retired navy officer Francisco Scilingo stunned his countrymen and the world by openly confessing to his own participation in the practice of pushing live political dissidents out of airplanes over the South Atlantic during the course of Argentina's dirty war. In a series of interviews with Horacio Verbitsky, Scilingo confirms what was rumoured for years but always denied by the Argentine military. He recounts his inside knowledge of the monstrous campaign of systematic torture and death waged by the military from 1976 to 1983, he details the military's practice of rotating personnal so that everyone including the officers would be complicit, and he talks about the Church's awareness and seeming endorsement of many of the atrocities.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1565840097
• ISBN 13: 9781565840096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240