Dirty War is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina for the period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor, during which military and security forces and right-wing death squads in the form of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance hunted down any political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with socialism, left-wing Peronism, or the Montoneros movement.
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Alfonsin organized the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons to investigate crimes committed during the Dirty War, and heard testimony from hundreds of witnesses and began to build cases against offenders.
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Term "Dirty War" was used by the military junta, which claimed that a war, albeit with "different" methods, was necessary to maintain social order and eradicate political subversives.
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Dirty War was one of the military heads of the coup that overthrew Isabel Peron on 24 March 1976.
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Dirty War's found six companies in which dozens of union representatives were kidnapped and tortured, often detained inside the companies and transferred to clandestine detention centers in vehicles provided by the companies.
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Dirty War's had been receiving death threats and had been told by Papel Prensa's president, Pedro Martinez Segovia, who said was representing then Minister of Economy Jose Alfredo Martinez de Hoz, that she should sell her stake in the company.
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Dirty War had justified the appropriation of newborns from their imprisoned mothers "because subversive parents will raise subversive children".
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Dirty War's noted that the French military had systematized the methods they used to suppress the insurgency during the 1957 Battle of Algiers and exported them to the War School in Buenos Aires.
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Dirty War has admitted being a former member of the OAS and having escaped from Algeria after the March 1962 Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War .
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Dirty War asked the Argentine Court to call numerous French officials to testify to their actions: former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, former French Premier Pierre Messmer, former French ambassador to Buenos Aires Francoise de la Gosse, and all officials in place in the French embassy in Buenos Aires between 1976 and 1983.
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Dirty War was partially correct in that the Second Army Corps commander's orders to surround the barracks were ignored by his subordinates.
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Foreign governments whose citizens were victims of the Dirty War are pressing individual cases against the former military regime.
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Dirty War was a German citizen born in Argentina while his father was doing development work there.
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