Former Argentine military leader Jorge Rafael Videla has died aged 87 while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity.
He is reported to have died from natural causes in prison.
The general was jailed in 2010 for the deaths of 31 dissidents during the 1976-83 military dictatorship, of which he was overall leader until 1981.
Up to 30,000 people were tortured and killed during this period, in a campaign known as the "Dirty War".
Gen Videla had been sentenced to life in prison for torture, murder and other crimes in 1985, but was pardoned in 1990 under an amnesty given by the president at the time, Carlos Menem. In April 2010, the Supreme Court upheld a 2007 federal court move to overturn his pardon.
Eight months later he was found "criminally responsible" for the torture and deaths of 31 prisoners and jailed for life.
Most of the left-wing activists were taken from their cells in the central city of Cordoba and shot dead shortly after the military took power.
The army said at the time that they were killed while trying to escape.
Gen Videla was one of 30 members of the security forces charged with the murders.
This kind of thing is what made me first start question Christianity when it was being force fed to me.
If god truly had such a grasp on this reality and was as perfect as everybody claimed, why would he let men like Gen survive till 87 yet kill off innocent people before they have a chance to walk. The only justice in his case was instated by fellow man, maybe that's who we should start praying to. (obviously not)
