INR WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS OF DEVELOPMENTS IN HUMAN RIGHTS NO. 21, SEPTEMBER 7, 1977[SANITIZED] - 1977/09/07

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Keywords: 1977-1981
• Keywords: DEVELOPMENTS
• Keywords: HUMAN RIGHTS
• Keywords: INR
• Keywords: IRM PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
• Keywords: WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00724491
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: September 7, 1977

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INR WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTENR
OF DEVELOPMENTS INHUMAN RIGHTS*
No. 21, September 7, 1977
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Promotions Linked
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army plans to.use this
up abuses committed by
to Rights Performance.
moderate Videla-Viola faction of the
year's promotion cycle to help clean
the security forces.
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--a colonel has been specifically told that
he will be assigned to Corps I (Buenos
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Aires region) duties to control "untoward
security incidents" there;
--Colonel Ramon Juan Alberto Camps, Chief of
Police for Buenos Aires Province, believes
he will be passed over for promotion because
of abuses that have occurred within his juris-
diction, especially in the city of La Plata;
Camps'perceives a clear army trend against
those who have pursued vigorous counterterrorist
activities, even though he claims not to have
received orders to alter significantly his
methods; -
--another colonel.believes he will not be promoted
because superiors blame him for failing to con-
trol a civilian vigilante group; the group
has ignored an army order to disband,
and Its members are hiding to avoid detention;
--all three armed services plan foreign assign-
ments for officers guilty of illegal activities,
in an effort to remove them from the scene.
INR Comment: The statement by Police Chief Camps an
the task assigned to the new Corps I officer are particularly
significant because they involve the areas where abuses
have occurred most frequently in recent months. If the
reported plans are implemented, they will constitute a
challenge to Corps I commander General Suarez Mason,
a tough hardliner known to condone counterterrorist excesses.
According to earlier reports, Videla also plans to retire
Suarez Mason. While the prospect of a possible increase
in civilian vigilante activity independent of military
oversight is worrisome, the military's grip is tight enough
to prevent the proliferation of such groups if that is the
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