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9 Sep 2014

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Buenos Aires Herald

New lawsuit over dictatorship-era crimes

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The Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) human rights organization has filed a lawsuit against food products company Molinos Río de la Plata SA for its alleged involvement in crimes against humanity in the last military dictatorship. The…suit, which was submitted on Friday to the La Plata Federal Court where the Molinos case will be tried, was publicized yesterday…Molinos Río de la Plata is being investigated for the disappearance of 24 of its workers, in a case investigating crimes committed against labour union representatives…“An internal intelligence group in the company marked and persecuted workers,” leading to threats against the workers, bullets in their lockers, and pressure to accept compensation packages offered by the company, the CELS suit read…This is the first time that CELS has presented itself institutionally on the part of a plaintiff investigating civil complicity in crimes against humanity in the past 13 years. [Also refers to Bunge]