Argentine ex-Navy officer accused of 23 dictatorship-era murders dies in Berlin

Source: Buenos Aires Times

TODAY 17:08

Argentine ex-Navy officer accused of 23 dictatorship-era murders dies in Berlin

Ex-Navy officer Luis Kyburg was suspected in the abduction, disappearance, torture and murder of 23 young individuals in 1976 and 1977; 75-year-old died just weeks before he was due to be charged.

An Argentine former Navy officer accused of crimes against humanity during the nation’s brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship has died in Berlin, just weeks before he was due to be charged over the murder of 23 members of left-wing groups during the era of state terrorism.

Ex-Navy officer Luis Esteban Kyburg was suspected in the abduction, disappearance, torture and murder of 23 young individuals in 1976 and 1977, prosecutors in Berlin said. He had been indicated.

The 75-year-old had obtained German citizenship and left Argentina in 2013 for Berlin before being summoned to testify as a defendant for crimes against humanity.

Prosecutors initially would not name the suspect, but the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), which helped victims' relatives file a case against him in Berlin, identified Kyburg.

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