Basilio Lami Dozo

{{Short description|Argentine Air Force General, 1929–2017}}

{{Infobox military person

| name = Basilio Lami Dozo

| image = LamiDozoBasilio(cropped).jpg

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| caption = Lami Dozo in 1982

| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|2|1|df=y}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|2|1|1929|2|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Santiago del Estero, Argentina

| death_place = José C. Paz, Argentina

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| placeofburial_label = Place of burial

| nickname =

| birth_name = Basilio Arturo Ignacio Lami Dozo

| allegiance = {{flagicon|Argentina}} Argentina

| branch = Argentine Air Force

| serviceyears =

| rank = Brigadier General

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| commands =

| battles = Falklands War

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Basilio Arturo Ignacio Lami Dozo (1 February 1929 – 1 February 2017){{Cite web|url=http://www.justicetribune.com/index.php?page=v2_article&id=209|title=International Justice Tribune|website=International Justice Tribune|language=en|access-date=2017-02-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221001558/http://www.justicetribune.com/index.php?page=v2_article&id=209|archive-date=2019-02-21|url-status=dead}} was an Argentine military officer and fighter pilot . He was a notable member and figure of the Argentine military dictatorship known as the National Reorganisation Process (1976–1983) and, along with Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri and Jorge Isaac Anaya, was a member of the Third Military Junta that ruled Argentina between 1981 and 1982. Alongside Reynaldo Bignone and Omar Graffigna he was one of the last surviving members of the dictatorship.

In 1985, during the Trial of the Juntas, he was charged of acts of torture, extrajudicial killings, making false declarations, and kidnappings.{{Cite web|url=http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/arg/parlamento/an3.html|title=Anexo estadístico del informe al|website=Derechos.org|access-date=2017-02-16}}

In 1989, he was sentenced to an eight-year prison term in the criminal proceedings that arose from the 1982 Falklands War, in which he had served as commander-in-chief of the Argentine Air Force. In 1990 he received a presidential pardon from Carlos Menem and was allowed to keep his military rank.

In 2003, the Spanish justice system sought his extradition in order to stand trial in Spain for crimes against humanity committed during the dictatorship. Initially the government of Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar ruled the extradition inadmissible but, in 2005, the Supreme Court overturned that decision and ordered extradition proceedings to go ahead.