SPAIN’S High Court sentenced a former Argentinean navy captain to 640 years in jail yesterday for crimes against humanity, convicting him of throwing political prisoners from planes in Argentina’s dirty war.

A former Argentine navy officer who once admitted to throwing drugged, naked dissidents to their death from airplanes during his country’s “dirty war” recanted as he took the stand yesterday at his trial in Madrid on charges of genocide, torture and terrorism.

A FORMER Argentinian naval officer, who has admitted throwing 30 drugged, naked dissidents off aircraft into the Atlantic during his country’s Dirty War, went on trial for genocide in Spain yesterday.

A former Argentinian naval officer, who has admitted throwing 30 drugged, naked dissidents off aircraft into the Atlantic during his country’s Dirty War, went on trial for genocide in Spain today.

A former Argentinian navy officer went on trial in Madrid today on charges of genocide, torture and terrorism committed during his country’s “dirty war” more than two decades ago.