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Grandmother of the Missing during the Military Dictatorship, Discovers
Grandson after 35-Year Search
Estela de Carlotto promised earlier this week to carry on searching for other "stolen children"
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We are very pleased at the news that Argentinian grandmother
and human rights defender Estela de Carlotto, who is president of the
Association of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, has discovered the identity of
her grandson, after decades of perseverance. Carlotto’s grandson was among an
estimated 500 children who disappeared during the military dictatorship in
Argentina between 1976 and 1983. He was born in 1978 during his mother’s
clandestine detention by the military. His mother, Ms Carlotto's daughter, was
killed two months after the birth. His father was also among those illegally
detained and later killed.
Of the estimated 500 children disappeared during the military dictatorship in Argentina, only 114 have been located.
The courage, perseverance and determination that grandmothers of disappeared children in Argentina have demonstrated over the past three decades continue to inspire human rights defenders across the globe.
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and other human rights associations in the region have made a tremendous contribution to the UN human rights system, and have advanced the application of scientific methods towards resolution of human rights issues.
Enforced disappearance is a human rights violation that repeats itself daily for the families of the disappeared and we call on authorities in all parts of the world to redouble their efforts to discover the fate of such individuals and to ensure that the rights to justice and reparation are realised.
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ARGENTINA GRANDMOTHER "OF
THE MISSING" FINDS GRANDSON BORN TO DEATH CAMP MOTHER
Estela Carlotto, founder of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, says 36-year-old
pianist named Guido is the child stolen by military regime from Laura Carlotto,
who was killed after giving birth
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