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Argentina's Videla admits killings

Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla has admitted for the first time his regime stole babies, kidnapped thousands of opponents and murdered them.

Videla, 86, who was jailed for life in 2010 for murder, torture and kidnapping, has repeatedly justified the brutality of the military junta in the so-called Dirty War crackdown on left-wing opponents.

The country's brutal seven-year dictatorship has long been accused of 'disappearing' leftist opponents....

Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)