Victims
The group first came to national attention on 21 November 1973 when it unsuccessfully tried to murder Argentine Senator Hipólito Solari Yrigoyen by means of a car bomb. The AAA went on to kill 1,122 people, according to an appendix to the 1983 CONADEP report, including suspected Montoneros and ERP leftist guerrillas and their sympathizers, as well as judges, police chiefs, and social activists. In total, it is suspected of having killed more than 1500 people.
The group is strongly suspected in the 1974 assassination of Jesuit Carlos Mugica, a friend of Mario Firmenich, Montoneros's founder. Other people murdered by the organisation include Silvio Frondizi, brother of former president Arturo Frondizi, former-vice director of the police Julio Troxler, defender of political prisoners Alfredo Curutchet, and a key union leader of Córdoba, Hipólito Atilio López. The CONADEP commission on human rights violations has proven the Triple A's execution of 19 homicides in 1973, 50 in 1974 and 359 in 1975, while its involvement in several hundred others is also suspected.
One of the most often cited estimates counts 220 terrorist attacks from July to September 1974, which killed 60 and heavily injured 44, as well as 20 kidnappings Federal judge Norberto Oyarbide, who signed the extradition demand against former leader of the AAA Rodolfo Almirón, qualified in December 2006 the Triple A's crimes as human rights violations and the "beginning of the systematic process directed by the state apparatus" during the dictatorship.
Death threats caused many people to leave Argentina. Amongst many well-known and respected people who left are mathematician Manuel Sadosky, artists Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni and Nacha Guevara, politician and entrepreneur José Ber Gelbard, lawyer and politician Héctor Sandler, and actor Norman Briski.
The AAA was known to have strong backing from the military and Army Commander-in-Chief Jorge Rafael Videla, who came to power as President following the 1976 coup d'état.
- Murder of Rodolfo David Ortega Peña on July 31, 1974
- Murder of Raúl Laguzzidel on September 5, 1974
- Murder of Alfredo Alberto Pérez Curutchet on September 10, 1974
- Kidnapping of Daniel Banfi, Luis Latrónica and Guillermo Jabif on September 12, 1974
- Murder of Julio Tomás Troxler on September 20, 1974
- Murder of Domingo Devincenti on November 6, 1974
- Murder of Luis Ángel Mendiburu and Silvio Frondizi on September 27, 1974
- Murder of Carlos Ernensto Laham and Pedro Leopoldo Barraza on October 13, 1974.
- Murder of Ramon Samaniego on April 12, 1974
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