Argentinian ex-naval officer goes on trial for genocide

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.

Adolfo Scilingo, 58, is the first person to be tried in Spain for crimes against humanity in another nation.

He said nothing intelligible in the Madrid court, only mumbling when a judge spoke to him, and spent most of the session wrapped in a dark blanket, grimacing and covering his eyes with clenched fists.