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Argentina : the 500 stolen babies of the dictatorship

Between 1976 and 1983, during the dark years of the military dictatorship in Argentina, the lives of thousands of citizens became a horrific nightmare when squads of "special forces" rounded-up political opponents of the regime and sent them to be tortured and then killed in secret death camps. Young pregnant women were kept aside in appalling conditions until they gave birth, and their babies, the "little angels" as they were cynically called by the torturers, together with other abducted children, became "war booty" and were handed over to the military and their friends. Thirty-five years later, a groundbreaking trial began in Buenos Aires, the result of a relentless struggle by the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo who have successfully traced 107 of these children. Their quest, still unfinished, continues today.

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