ARGENTINA, THE
DEATH SQUADS, AND
CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM
Written By
S.R. Shearer
The names of the two Argentine naval officers who testified about
Argentine death squad atrocities to ABC, NBC and CBS in May of 1995
are Antonio Pernias and Juan Carlos Rolan (both naval Captains). Both
officers also testified to this effect before the Argentine Senate in
June. Their testimony was later corraborated by Captain Adolfo Scilingo,
another naval officer (a captain), in testimony he gave to well-known
Argentine journalist Horacio Verbitsky in the fall of 1995. All three
- Pernias, Rolan, and Scilingo - detailed the practice of dumping leftist
political prisoners (men women and children - some barely into their
teens) alive over the Atlantic from the bellies of Argentine naval planes.
Accompanying each of the death flights were Protestant pastors and /
or Catholic priests whose job it was to "comfort" not the
victims but the occasional squimish death squad functionary with various
Scriptures from the Bible about the necessity of separating the wheat
from the chaff. The death flights were carried out every Wednesday over
the course of several years.
Argentine business leaders, military officers, Catholic prelates,
and conservative evangelicals - including leaders in many of
Argentinas largest pentecostal bodies - have condemned Pernias,
Rolan, and Scilingo for speaking out. After all, they say, what
was done was done for the sake of a noble cause - saving Christianity
and the "free enterprise system" from the communist
conspiracy and the scourge of Liberation Theology.
What a way to build the kingdom of God, but this is what "Political
Christianity" is all about! God save the church from people who
would protect it in such a fashion!
Antipas Ministries
S.R. Shearer
- Please see "The Triumph of Memory" in NACLA Report on
the Americas, volume XXIX, No. 3, Nov/Dec 1995, pg. 10.
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