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Families and Experts Continue Identifications of Argentina’s Disappeared 50 Years On
Forensic teams have identified over 120 remains from Argentina's dictatorship era as families continue efforts despite budget cuts and military non-cooperation, human rights groups say.
- In early March, authorities in Tucumán handed over the incomplete remains of Eduardo Ramos and Alicia Cerrotta to their families, who carried urns to a municipal cemetery and placed them in a mausoleum, marking the end of a 50-year wound.
- On March 24, 1976, a military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Eduardo Massera and Orlando Ramón Agosti seized power, launching abductions, torture, executions and forced disappearances of people deemed 'subversive', with especially fierce repression in Tucumán province killing about 2,000.
- Archaeologists working at Pozo de Vargas recovered 149 remains and about 38,000 bone fragments, while the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team has identified 121 sets since 2011.
- Family members called the handover liberating and said relatives kissed caskets, saying 'We finally know where they are', while the Tafi Viejo cemetery mausoleum in Tucumán still has most niches empty with twenty-eight sets of remains still to be identified.
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50 years after Argentina’s bloody coup, families still search for and bury the disappeared
Nearly 50 years after Argentina's 1976 coup that led to a repressive dictatorship, families are still searching for and burying the disappeared.
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C 40%
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