Argentina identifies dozens of victims killed in its ‘Dirty War’
Forensic anthropologists have identified the remains of at least 38 people disappeared during Argentina's last military dictatorship; the names of eight victims were revealed.
Argentina's forensic anthropologists have identified the remains of at least 38 people who were disappeared during the country's last military dictatorship, a new milestone in the effort to uncover the crimes of the so-called Dirty War.
The victims had been held at La Perla, the clandestine detention center in the province of Cordoba, where they were killed and their remains scattered across the surrounding countryside, according to a report by Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo. In 1979, the military regime tried to conceal its crimes by moving some of the remains to other locations in the province.
Members of Argentina's forensic anthropology team are still excavating the site, sifting through rubble and earth in search of more remains that could help identify those buried there.
In what the report described as a very emotional press conference, the names of at least eight of the victims were revealed. Relatives of the disappeared were present, expressing relief that they finally know what happened to their loved ones.
The identifications are the latest step in Argentina's decades-long reckoning with the dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s, whose security forces disappeared and murdered thousands of suspected dissidents. For the families of the missing, each recovered name brings an end to years of uncertainty about the fate of their relatives.
Source: Al Jazeera English — TrendWire reports stories in its own words; facts should be confirmed against the original source.