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18 Sep 2014

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Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) (Argentina)

CELS Joins Court Probe to Uncover Corporate Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity

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Although Argentina´s military dictatorship led the campaign of terror carried out between 1976 and 1983, the security forces were not the only ones to blame for the bloodshed. Civilian collaborators, including prominent business executives, played a key role…On September 15, a federal court accepted the Center for Legal and Social Studies…as a plaintiff in the investigation of the role of Molinos Río de la Plata S.A. in the disappearance of 26 people—the vast majority of them union activists at one of the company´s plants…This latest court probe centers on the forced disappearance of union activists and former workers at Molinos Río de la Plata between July 1976 and October 1978…Molinos workers and ex-employees were kidnapped in their homes and on the streets, taken to clandestine detention centers and presumably killed…These investigations are part of a global movement to hold companies responsible for their participation in human rights violations…[Also refers to Bunge, Ford, Mercedes-Benz (part of Daimler)]