Death flights are a form of extrajudicial killing in which victims are dropped to their deaths from airplanes or helicopters and their bodies land in oceans, large rivers or mountains. Death flights h
Short Skyvan 'PA-51', one of the original aircraft used for "death flights", now on display at Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA
Death flights victims during the Algerian War were known as crevettes Bigeard ("Bigeard's shrimp"), after French General Marcel Bigeard (pictured)
The Dirty War was the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina for the period of state-sponsored violence in Argentina from 1974 to 1983. During this campaign, milit
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…France during the 1947 Malagasy Uprising in Madagascar and the 1957 Battle of Algiers, and by the junta dictatorship which ruled Argentina and waged the Argentine Dirty War between 1976 and 1983. During the Bougainville conflict, Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) helicopters were used to dispose of corpses of detainees…
An image of Jorge Rafael Videla inside a dossier by the U.S. Government
Memorial at the former detention center of Quinta de Mendez [es]
Excavation of the former clandestine detention center Club Atlético, Paseo Colón 1200, City of Buenos Aires