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- Brigadier General of the Argentine Air Force Basilio Arturo Ignacio Lami Dozo, 1929
- Commander - in - Chief of the Argentine Navy Admiral Jorge Isaac Anaya, 1926
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Brigadier General (Lieutenant General) Basilio Arturo Ignacio Lami Dozo (1 February 1929 - 1 February 2017) was a member of the Argentine Air Force. He participated in the military dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process (1976 - 1983) and, along with Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri and Jorge Isaac Anaya, was a member of the Third Military Junta that ruled Argentina between 1981 and 1982.
In the 1985 Trial of the Juntas he was charged with, and acquitted of, acts of torture, making false declarations, and kidnappings.
In 1989 he was sentenced to an eight year prison term in the criminal proceedings that arose from the 1982 Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), in which he had served as commander - in - chief of the Air Force. In 1990 he received a presidential pardon from Carlos Menem and was allowed to keep his military rank.
In 2003 the Spanish justice system sought his extradition in order to stand trial in Spain for crimes against humanity committed during the dictatorship. Initially the government of Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar ruled the extradition inadmissible but, in 2005, the Supreme Court overturned that decision and ordered extradition proceedings to go ahead.
Basilio Lami Dozo Arturo Ignacio was born into a traditional family in the province of Santiago del Estero who are descendants of immigrants from Syria and Lebanon who came to the Republic of Argentina before the disappearance of the Ottoman Empire after the World War.
Admiral Jorge Isaac Anaya (27 September 1926 - 9 January 2008) was a former Commander - in - Chief of the Argentine Navy. He was born in Bahía Blanca, in the province of Buenos Aires. He participated in the military dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process (1976 - 1983) and, along with Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri and Basilio Lami Dozo, was a member of the Third Military Junta that ruled Argentina between 1981 and 1982. He was the main architect and supporter of a military solution for the long standing claim over the Falkland Islands that led to the Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas).
In 1955, Ship - of - the - Line Lieutenant Anaya participated in the coup against president Juan Domingo Perón.
He later served as Argentina's naval attaché in London, United Kingdom.
In 1976, during the first part of the new military regime, Anaya was Chief of Naval Operations.
In December 1981, there was a change in the dictatorship bringing to office a new junta headed by General Leopoldo Galtieri. Anaya then, as commander - in - chief of the navy, ordered Vice Admiral Juan Lombardo to create a plan to seize the Falklands Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) which both presented to the new acting president.
During the 1982 war he devised and commanded Operation Algeciras, in which Argentine commandos were to sabotage a Royal Navy warship harbored in Gibraltar; the plan was thwarted at the last minute when communications were intercepted.
In the 1985 Trial of the Juntas he was acquitted of charges of kidnapping, torture, enslavement, concealing the truth, usurpation of power, and false declarations.
In 1997, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón requested the arrest and extradition of 45 members of the Argentine military, and one civilian, for crimes of genocide, state terrorism, and torture committed during the "Dirty War" period of the de facto regime, including Anaya. The request was denied on several occasions by the democratically elected Argentine government, which argued that it was inadmissible on grounds of inapplicable jurisdiction.
On 27 July 2003, by means of Decree 420/03, President Néstor Kirchner amended the criteria under which the extraditions had been refused, ordering that the legal proceedings requested by the Spanish courts go ahead and thus enabling the extraditions to proceed.
In August 2003, Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar ordered the cessation of the extradition proceedings for crimes committed in Argentina under the de facto regime. That decision was later overturned by the Supreme Court in 2005, which ordered that Garzón's requested extraditions continue. In November 2006, while waiting to be interrogated by an examining magistrate, he suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the naval hospital; he remained under house arrest after his discharge from hospital, but was never deemed fit enough to stand trial.
He died on 9 January 2008 while under house arrest on charges of human rights violations.