Human Rights Violations
Almost 5,000 people were taken and held in the ESMA, with only 150 survivors. Executions were usually announced as "transfers", as if to other prisons. The prisoners were taken to the basement, sedated, and then killed: some by firing squad (their bodies to be cremated in the nearby sports field), others in death flights, flown over the Río de la Plata and dumped from the airplanes while unconscious.
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