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Uruguay, Argentina Governments Revisit ‘Dirty War’ Crimes

Uruguay, Argentina Governments Revisit ‘Dirty War’ Crimes

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- In South America's Southern Cone, "Dirty War" wounds are getting a fresh coat of pain.

Under populist governments in Uruguay and Argentina, human rights investigators have been turning over old stones to prosecute crimes dating back to the region's 1970s dictatorships, a period of state violence against dissident citizens known as the Dirty War.

And old ghosts are flying.

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