1989 attack on La Tablada Regiment
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The 1989 attack on La Tablada was an assault on the military barracks located in La Tablada, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On 23 January 1989, members of a political organization, the Movimiento Todos por la Patria (All for the Motherland Movement, "MTP") attacked the Third Mechanized Infantry Regiment barracks in La Tablada (Regimiento de Infantería Mecanizada Nº 3, RIM3).
Thirty-nine people were killed during the attack. Nine were military personnel, two were police officers and the 28 remaining were members of the MTP. 20 surviving members of the MTP were later convicted and given sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment.
[edit] Human rights violations
At least two MTP members reported as killed are suspected of having been "executed" after surrendering, and there was evidence that at least three others were "disappeared" after being captured [citation needed]. In all, nine are thought to have been killed after capture. In addition, prisoners were allegedly tortured immediately after capture, and then again while in custody of the Federal Police and the Penitentiary Service. Most of those convicted in the attacks were placed in a maximum security cell block on the eighteenth floor of the Caseros prison in Buenos Aires.
[edit] References
- Amnesty International:
- Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Informe Nº 55/97 - Caso 11.137.
- Human Rights Watch. 1989 Argentina report.
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