ARGENTINA: MOTHERS STEP UP CAMPAIGN FOR INFORMATION ON 'DISAPPEARED ONE

Record ID: 627861

  • Title: ARGENTINA: MOTHERS STEP UP CAMPAIGN FOR INFORMATION ON 'DISAPPEARED ONE
  • Date: 28th January 1985
  • Summary: GVs & SVs Mothers walking to and fro outside Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires carrying photograph of "Missing Ones". (4 SHOTS) 0.18 SVs & CUs Police watch as women draw outlines of their hands. (4 SHOTS) 0.31 LVs & CUs Police watch, mother addresses crowd through loudhailer. Crowd applaud. (4 SHOTS) 0.54 CU & LV Crowd chants. (2 SHOTS) 1.03
  • Embargoed: 12th February 1985 12:00
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  • Location: Argentina, Argentina
  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAVKI4SBBC0BO682UJLL68ZSP5
  • Story Text: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

    Mothers and relations of the "Disappeared Ones" in Argentina have stepped up their campaign for action by President Raul Alfonsin's government over nearly 9,000 people who disappeared in the so-called "Dirty War" waged by the military dictatorships which ruled the country from 1976 to 1983. The "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" who have for years demonstrated outside the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, want information on the fate of their loved ones, and the perpetrators brought to trial. An official government report issued last November and entitled "Never Again", told of 8,961 people who were known to have disappeared and of 340 illegal detention centres. How to handle the question of the "Disappeared Ones" has caused a sharp debate inside Argentina since President Alfonsin's civilian government came to power in December, 1983. Supporters of the Mothers' campaign drew outlines of their hands on paper, adding their names and identity document numbers. The campaign will culminated on March 24, when all the paper outlines will be strung between the Palace of Congress and the Plaza de Mayo to give reality to their campaign, "Give the Disappeared a Hand".

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - HECTOR LOPEZ</strong>
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