Former Argentine junta leader dies at 81

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By BILL CORMIER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Retired Gen. Guillermo Suarez Mason, a former junta commander under arrest in connection with probes of suspected illegal adoptions dating to the past dictatorship, died Tuesday. He was 81.

As former commander of Argentina's First Army Corps, Suarez Mason was facing an investigation into accusations of illegal adoptions of children born to women detained during the 1976-83 dictatorship.

He also had been under past investigation by courts looking into the 1980 disappearances of some 20 armed leftist guerrillas during the military's systematic crackdown on dissent known as the Dirty War.

Suarez Mason was being held at a Buenos Aires prison when he was rushed to the Central Military Hospital over the weekend after complaining of abdominal pains, local reports said. <snip>

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[mitchtv]

1. rot in hell

hijo de puta