Buenos Aires , Argentina ( CNN ) -- An Argentine Dirty War-era general has been sentenced to life in prison for the killing of five people during the dictatorship . Luciano Benjamin Menendez , former head of the Third Army Corps , was already serving a life sentence for violating the human rights of four others . A panel of judges on the Argentine court handed down the sentence Wednesday . Sentenced along with Menendez was former policeman Roberto Heriberto Albornoz , who was also sent to prison for life . Up to 30,000 students , labor leaders , intellectuals and leftists who ran afoul of the dictatorship because of their political views disappeared or were held in secret jails and torture centers during the nation 's eight-year Dirty War . Menendez 's most recent trial stems from an army and police assault on a home in Tucuman province on May 20 , 1976 , according to Argentina 's Center for Judicial Information . A group of Montoneros , an urban guerrilla group , was meeting inside the house before the forces launched explosives and entered the house , the center said . The soldiers and police killed four people inside the house , and also killed one who escaped .
Luciano Benjamin Menendez was the head of the Third Army Corps . He was sentenced to life for the killing of five people . Comment: