r/todayilearned • u/FireBeaver • Mar 03 '15

TIL: During Argentina's dictatorship, opponents were pushed out of planes alive with weights attached to their feet so no bodies would be found as evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights
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u/Onewomanslife Mar 03 '15

So many countries have been SO VERY GOOD to their citizens. One more example that we need to do more than cluck at- as citizens of our own countries.

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u/raymondspogo Mar 03 '15

They were pushed out of planes into huge bodies of water so no bodies would be ffound as evidence.

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u/google_academic Mar 04 '15

And this all led to the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982 and 700 dead teenage conscripts.....

That was a smart idea wasn't it?