New human rights charge against Argentine ex-army chief

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FILE - In this March 1, 2015 file photo, Gen. Cesar Milani arrives to Congress for the inauguration ceremony of the 2015 legislative year in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The former army chief was detained on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, in the Northern province of La Rioja accused of the torture and kidnapping of three people during the last military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Former Argentine army chief Cesar Milani has been charged with covering up the disappearance of a soldier during the military dictatorship of the 1970s.

A judge on Friday indicted Milani in the case of Alberto Ledo, who was a 20-year-old university student assigned as an aide to Milani during his mandatory military service.

Prosecutors say Ledo vanished after a captain summoned him one night, and Milani helped present the case as a desertion. The motive is not clear, though the military was carrying out a murderous purge of suspected leftists at the time.

Milani headed the military under President Cristina Fernandez until 2015. He also is under arrest for alleged participation in the kidnapping and torture of three people during the dictatorship, which ended in 1983.

He denies wrongdoing

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