Operation Independence
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Operativo Independencia ("Operation Independence") was a 1975 Argentine military operation in Tucumán Province to crush the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a Guevarist guerrilla group which tried to create a Vietnam-style war front in the northwestern province. It was the first large-scale military operation of the Dirty War.
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Part of the Dirty War | |||||||
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5,000 |
500 30-100 | ||||||
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| 300 killed |
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