The largest crimes against humanity trial in the history of Corrientes province will start on Monday morning. Ten former military officers and gendarmes of the VII Infantry Brigade will be tried for torture, murder, and kidnapping of over 100 victims, as well as illicit association.

The trial will take place in the Federal Oral Court (TOF, by its Spanish acronym) in the provincial capital Corrientes city. It will start at 8 a.m. (Argentina time) and live-streamed on YouTube.

The 7th Infantry Brigade’s had jurisdiction over the northeastern provinces of Chaco, Formosa, Misiones and part of Corrientes. Several clandestine centers of detention, torture and extermination were located in that area. One of the largest was the Corrientes 9th Infantry Regiment, where the crimes being tried on Monday took place — all 101 victims named in the case were detained there.

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The former military and gendarmes being charged are VII Brigade command officers Eduardo Antonio Cardoso, Alfredo Carlos Farmache and José Emilio Mechulán; members of the 9th Infantry Regiment’s senior staff Abelardo Carlos De la Vega and Horacio Losito; the regiment’s intelligence agents Raúl Horacio Harsich and Juan Carlos De Marchi; and former gendarmes Raúl Reynoso, Abelardo Palma and Pedro Armando Alarcón.

De Marchi, Losito, Reynoso and Harsich have already been convicted for crimes against humanity in Corrientes and other jurisdictions. For the rest of them, this will be their first time being tried for these types of crimes.

Almost four years have passed since the case was sent to trial. During that time, two of the accused repressors died, while two others were removed from the process because of health issues.

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There are more than 15 ongoing trials for crimes against humanity throughout the country. Since democracy was restored on December 10, 1983, over 1100 repressors have been convicted for their crimes during the last military dictatorship.

Part of the 17-hectare property of the former 9th Infantry Regiment, where the military still operates today, was recently turned into a public site of memory. People can now visit the warehouses where the victims were held captive, tortured, and even murdered, as a way to keep the memory of the dictatorship’s crimes alive.