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[I take] full military responsibility for the actions of the army in the war against terrorism.

— Jorge Rafael Videla

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As many people as necessary must die in Argentina so that the country will again be secure.

Bony-thin and mediocre in appearance, with a scrubby moustache, he looks for all the world like a cretin impersonating a toothbrush.

We consider it a great crime to work against the Western and Christian style of life: it is not just the bomber but the ideologist who is the danger.

Christopher Hitchens (2010)

I want to clarify that Argentine citizens are not victims of the repression. The repression is against a minority that we do not consider Argentine.

Patricia Marchak (2004)

The women giving birth, who I respect as mothers, were militants who were active in the machine of terror... Many used their unborn children as human shields.

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