Victory for human rights as Argentina votes to scrap amnesty laws
Human rights activists and relatives of the disappeared present broke into raucous applause when it was announced that Senators had voted 43 to seven with one abstention to scrap the laws. Twenty-one lawmakers were absent. The lower House of Congress had passed the proposal last week.
The final congressional approval marked a victory for human rights groups who are pressing for a national re-examination of the 1976-83 dictatorship.
