NAME: URU DICTATOR 20071217I TAPE: EF07/1502 IN_TIME: 11:08:41:02 DURATION: 00:01:06:21 SOURCES: AP Television /Latino Americana TV/CHANNEL 10 DATELINE: Montevideo, 17 Dec 2007/File RESTRICTIONS: See Script SHOTLIST Latino Americana TV - No Access Uruguay Montevideo - 17 December 2007 1. Ex-dictator Gregorio Alvarez getting into car and being driven away AP Television FILE: Montevideo, 2006 2. Mid shot of worker digging for bone remains during excavation process 3. Mid shot of grave and remains 4. Close-up of remains 5. Mid shot of grave 6. Close up of bones and skull AP Television FILE: Montevideo, 1980's 7. Mid shot of Uruguayan President (1981-1985), General Gregorio Conrado Alvarez Armelino CHANNEL 10 - No Access Uruguay FILE: Montevideo, 2006 8. Former dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry entering courtroom, as others yell out "Murderer" CHANNEL 10 - No Access Uruguay FILE: Montevideo, 1976 ++BLACK AND WHITE++ 9. Bordaberry talking to reporters STORYLINE Uruguay's last military dictator, Gregorio Alvarez, was charged on Monday with the forced disappearance of political prisoners, cheering human rights activists who have long campaigned for his prosecution. Alvarez, now 82 and retired, was the army general who led Uruguay from 1982 until shortly before the country restored democracy in 1985. Arrested without incident at his home on Monday, he was sent to a military prison to await trial in connection with the disappearance of some 40 Uruguayan political prisoners who were seized by military rulers in neighbouring Argentina and secretly returned to Uruguay in 1977 and 1978, according to prosecutors. His arrest was welcomed by human rights activists who have campaigned for justice for years. Alvarez said in an earlier court appearance that he knew nothing of the illegal abductions and forced disappearances, but the prosecutor has argued that Alvarez was in a position to know what happened as former army commander in chief and later, de facto president. Prosecutors say Uruguayan political prisoners were secretly airlifted from Argentina as part of "Operation Condor," in which South America's right-wing military regimes cooperated, with secret help from US intelligence agencies, to crush leftist dissent and leave no sanctuary for dissidents fleeing their countries. The military ruled Uruguay between 1973 and 1985. Argentina was under military dictatorship from 1976 until 1983. Some 150 Uruguayan activists remain missing, believed to have been seized by governments of the era. Argentines are still seeking information about nearly 13-thousand officially listed as dead or missing from the period of military rule. Alvarez's wife, Rosario Flores, told The Associated Press that police and an army officer came to their home in the Uruguayan capital early on Monday and her husband went without protest after charges were filed by Judge Luis Charles. Flores complained that prosecutors failed to make public the evidence against Alvarez. She said her husband was taken to a military prison where other former officers suspected of human rights violations are housed in a special wing. The detention of Alvarez comes 13 months after the arrest of the man who headed the first military-dominated government, Juan Maria Bordaberry, who faces 14 homicide charges related to "dirty war" killings of the 1970s. He is under house arrest due to health problems. Retired armed forces officers, in a communique, complained that the Alvarez detention violates the spirit of a 1986 amnesty benefiting former military and leftist guerillas alike. But the courts have rejected Alvarez's challenge of the investigation into Uruguayans who were seized beyond national borders. Human rights lawyers have successfully argued before the Uruguayan courts that crimes committed outside the country are exempt from the amnesty.

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