How many disappeared in argentina

This article is more than 5 months old. Move is part of groundbreaking effort to name 30, murdered by regime after coup. Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and other demonstrators in Buenos Aires display portraits of Argentinians who disappeared under the military regime. Now DNA tests are being used to help identify the remains of the victims. Rugby's victims of Argentina's dirty war show sport cannot evade politics Sean Ingle. Read more. Junta takes over in Argentina: archive, 25 March Last December a court found four former military and police officers guilty of the illegal arrest, torture and disappearance of Oscar Dezorzi and three other left-wing activists from Gualeguaychu.

But for the Dezorzis, the trial produced no information on where Oscar's remains might be. My grandmother has done nothing wrong.

I have done nothing wrong. Then why not tell us where my dad is," says Emanuel Dezorzi. We have gone through 37 years of not knowing. To have a relative disappeared is a wound that does not close until the person appears again. Argentine Mothers marching on for justice. Country profile: Argentina. Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Spanish. Marcos Queipo was threatened when he tried to report the disappearances. Slow process.

Bodies were thrown into the delta sometimes twice a week, say residents. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

They found a powerful ally in Mary-Claire King, an American geneticist who began working with them in The technique has led to controversies, as when it was used on the reluctant adoptees of a powerful media magnate who were forced to give over their blood for testing.

But it has also led to the creation of a national genetic database. To date, the organization has confirmed the identities of stolen children, largely using the database and DNA identification techniques.

The Dirty War has been over since the military junta gave up power and agreed to democratic elections in Since then, nearly former members of the junta have been tried and convicted of crimes, many involving human rights abuses. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you.

The work of the Grandmothers has led to the location of more than 10 percent of the estimated children kidnapped or born in detention during the military era and illegally adopted.

The IFSW Human Rights Commission salutes the work of these grandmothers to bring these forcibly adopted children back into contact with their families. We also wish to express our solidarity with the people of Argentina, and the social worker associations in the Latin America and Caribbean region who continue to be concerned for the consequences to families of this catastrophic assault on human rights.