Former Argentine military ruler Jorge Videla goes on trial for murder in Argentina
Videla trial opens in Argentina
Former Argentine military ruler Jorge Videla, 84, has gone on trial for the murder of more than 30 political prisoners in 1976.
Videla, already serving a life sentence for abuses committed during military rule, is one of more than twenty defendants.
A presidential pardon given to him in 1990 was recently overturned by the supreme court.
Up to 30,000 people were tortured and murdered between 1976 and 1983.
As the head of the military junta until 1981, Videla is considered to have been the main architect of what became known as the “Dirty War”.