TV show helps woman kidnapped during Argentina's dictatorship learn true identity
The Associated PressPublished: March 14, 2007
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: A tip from a TV viewer led a 30-year-old woman kidnapped at birth during Argentina's dictatorship to learn her true identity, a human rights group said Wednesday.
A baby photograph of Rebeca Celina, who was seized at eight months of age with parents Alfredo Manirique and Laura Noemi Terrera on July 24, 1977, helped investigators solve the case after she agreed to DNA testing, the group said.
The parents have never been found, but the Ecumenical Human Rights Movement said it received a tip in September 2006 from an apparent relative of the adoptive family who saw the photograph on "Montecristo." The chart-topping program was Argentina's first telenovela to explore the "Dirty War" expropriation of children during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, in which at least 9,000 people went missing.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/14/america/LA-GEN-Argentina-Dirty-War-Child.php~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For anyone new to stories like this, babies were taken from suspected "leftist" prisoners in Argentina by the Kissinger-advised military coup which "disappeared" over 30,000 people.
Some of the children were born in prison to mothers who were kept there until they delivered, then killed and discarded. Prisoners were taken in airplanes and helicopters and flung into the ocean, lakes, rivers, etc. after being tortured.
The children were given to military officers and their wives, and scattered all over the country. Their grandmothers formed an organization of women with white scarves who have protested since 1977 publically, trying to get public help to locate their little relatives.
Founded in October 1977, the Association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo seek the return of children who disappeared during Argentina's dirty war~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~You may find it interesting that the junta was not satisfied with only the prisoners they had, but also sent people like the "Angel of Death" to infiltrate groups like the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and managed to kill the leader, as well as some French nuns, etc.
Ex-Argentine navy captain denies involvement in abduction of French nuns
The Associated PressPublished: January 24, 2007
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: A former Argentine navy captain dubbed the "Angel of Death" by human rights groups testified in court for the first time Wednesday, denying he helped abduct two French nuns and suggesting French "undercover agents" played a role in their deaths.
Capt. Alfredo Astiz, 56, is accused in the 1977 disappearance of nuns Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet, along with a dozen other people, including the founder of the human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Azucena Villaflor.
All were reported held at the former Navy Mechanics' School, the chief clandestine torture center of the 1976-83 military dictatorship, and some were thrown into the ocean from helicopters in Argentina's infamous "death flights."
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