Uruguay: Request for 30 years imprisonment for former dictator Bordaberry

A prosecutor sought a sentence of 30 years imprisonment for the former president turned dictator Juan M. Bordaberry accused of several human rights violations

Prosecutor Ana Maria Tellechea confirmed the order of conviction and noted that one of the "most important is that the attack on the Constitution, in other cases had been rejected" in its opinion.

He added that "the record does not end with the order of conviction and the continuing investigation of other murders."

Also, along with 30 years of imprisonment is the maximum which the Criminal Code, was added 15 years of security measures that begin to govern after the sentence served, as provided by law.

The prosecutor is unaware of the time in which the judge could Mariana Motta sentencing.

Bordaberry of 81 years, since 2006 is serving detention at home for health reasons, the complaint in two out of 14 cases of homicide.

For other offenses prisoners is also the former foreign minister Juan C. Bordaberry and white with the only two civilians were involved. A dozen uniformed retirees are also in this situation.

Tellechea, in its opinion to the high criminal court Mariana Motta, Bordaberry accused of a crime of "assault on the Constitution," nine crimes of "forced disappearance" and two counts of "aggravated homicide in particular, during his dictatorial management that began in June 1973 and ended in June 1976 when he was deposed by the military. The dictatorship ended in 1985.

The charges were Bordaberry to the repression launched by the anti-military and police organizations as well as against ... Tupamaros, who took up arms in the 60s in an effort to achieve power.

Bordaberry, a rich, became president after democratic elections in 1971, amid a scene of social chaos and violence. In 1972 Congress mandated a state of internal war and the next, the president gave a blow of closing the state Legislature, censoring the press and banning political and trade union activities.