Death flights

Death flights (Spanish: vuelos de la muerte) are a form of extrajudicial killing in which victims are dropped to their deaths from airplanes or helicopters and their bodies land in oceans, large rivers or mountains. Death flights have been carried out by governments during a number of internal conflicts, including by France during the 1947 Malagasy Uprising in Madagascar and the 1957 Battle of Algiers, and by the junta dictatorship which ruled Argentina and waged the Argentine Dirty War between 1976 and 1983. During the Bougainville conflict, Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) helicopters were used to dispose of corpses of detainees who had died under torture, and in some cases, still-living victims. Countries Argentina During the 1976–1983 Argentine Dirty War, many thousands of people disappeared, having been clandestinely kidnapped...