Battalion 316 (Honduras)

Battalion 316 was a Honduran army unit responsible for carrying out hundreds of political assassinations and widespread torture of suspected political opponents of the government during the 1980s. Battalion members received extensive training and support from the United States Central Intelligence Agency both in Honduras and at U.S. military bases [http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-negroponte1a,0,1240201.story??track=sto-relcon] , as well as from Alfredo Mario Mingolla and other members of the Argentine Batallion 601 (including Ciga Correa, who had collaborated with the Chilean DINA in assassinating General Carlos Prats and had trained, along with Seineldín, the AAA Equipo Nizkor, [http://www.margen.org/articu/nizkor1.html LA APARICION DE OSAMENTAS EN UNA ANTIGUA BASE MILITAR DE LA CIA EN HONDURAS REABRE LA PARTICIPACION ARGENTINO-NORTEAMERICANA EN ESE PAIS.] , "Margen" es icon] . The Batallion 316 was also trained by Pinochet's Chile .

Colonel Alvarez Martínez, of the Batallion 316, had studied at the Argentine Military College, graduating in 1961 . End of 1981, more than 150 Argentine officers were in Honduras . This training operation took the code-name of Operation Charly. One of the training base used was in Lepaterique, and the other in Quilalí . CIA took the Argentine's place after the Falkland War, although Argentine officers remained active in Honduras until 1984-1986 .

The Argentine ESMA Navy also sent instructors to Honduras, among whom Roberto Alfieri González,who served in the National Guard of El Salvador, as well as in Guatemala and Honduras .

References

ee also

*Death squad
*The Torture Manuals
*Torture
*War crimes
*Honduras
*John Negroponte

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* [http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-negroponte5,0,2446240.story Former envoy to Honduras says he did what he could] , Baltimore Sun, December 15, 1995, Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson, accessed April 14, 2007.

* [http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-negroponte1a,0,1240201.story??track=sto-relcon When a wave of torture and murder staggered a small U.S. ally, truth was a casualty] , Baltimore Sun, June 11, 1995, Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson, accessed April 14, 2007.

* [http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-negroponte2,0,2249629.story??track=sto-relcon Torturers' confessions] , Baltimore Sun, June 13, 1995, Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson, accessed April 14, 2007.

* [http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-negroponte1b,0,1305738.story??track=sto-relcon Glimpses of the 'disappeared'] , Baltimore Sun, June 11, 1995, Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson, accessed April 14, 2007.

* [http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-negroponte3a,0,1502347.story??track=sto-relcon A survivor tells her story] , Baltimore Sun, June 15, 1995, Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson, accessed April 14, 2007.

* [http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-negroponte4,0,2380703.story??track=sto-relcon A carefully crafted deception] , Baltimore Sun, June 18, 1995, Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson, accessed April 14, 2007.