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The Dirty War (in Spanish: ) is the name given to the state-sponsored violence against citizens mostly carried out between 1976 and 1983 by Jorge Rafael Videla's military government in Argentina (during what was called by the dictatorship the "National Reorganization Process"), which has been termed "genocide" by an Argentine court during the trial of Miguel Etchecolatz, former police officer of the Bonaerense provincial police and condemned for crimes against humanity.[1]