SOLVEDListenBuenos Aires, Argentina (kidnapping site); Timote, Buenos Aires Province (killing site) · 1970
Former de facto Argentine President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu was kidnapped from his Buenos Aires apartment on 29 May 1970 by members of the far-left guerrilla group Montoneros and shot to death three days later on 1 June 1970.
SOLVEDListenBuenos Aires, Argentina (primary documented site; practice also reported in Chile, Colombia, France/Algeria, Madagascar, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, and Zaire) · 1976
"Death flights" refers to a method of extrajudicial killing in which victims were dropped from airplanes or helicopters into oceans, rivers, or mountains, used by multiple governments and military forces during 20th-century internal conflicts, most extensively documented during Argentina's 1976–1983 Dirty War.
UNSOLVEDListenLe Parc Puerto Madero, Torre del Parque, Buenos Aires, Argentina · 2015
Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found shot dead in his locked Buenos Aires apartment hours before he was to present accusations against then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. A 2017 forensic report concluded he was murdered, contradicting earlier suicide claims, but no material perpetrators have been identified.
UNSOLVEDListenBuenos Aires, Argentina (approximate; precise incident location not specified in sources) · 2004
Axel Blumberg, a 23-year-old Argentine engineering student, was kidnapped and killed in March 2004, and his death sparked mass protests against crime and impunity in Argentina.
The files run from 1955 to 2015. The 1970s hold the most, with 2 files. The oldest is Assassination of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, from 1970.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (3), kidnapping and abduction cases (2) and disappearance cases (1).
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Plaza-Mayo-bombardeo-1955 — Credit: unknown/desconocidoPublic domainSource
Ceremonia en memoria a las víctimas en la embajada de Israel (04) — Credit: Cancillería ArgentinaCC BY 2.0Source
8. By status: 3 unsolved, 1 ongoing and 4 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Assassination of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, from 1970. Open the file
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