More on Argentina's "disappeareds..."

let's not forget... uruguay had their own part in argentina's "dirty war..." it wasn't restricted to argentina... although it's now been over 20 years, the details continue to emerge...

She was 19 and pregnant when she was abducted in Argentina in 1976 along with her husband, a leftist activist, who was killed two months later. After she was taken to neighbouring Uruguay, she was held in a clandestine torture centre until giving birth, after which she was never seen or heard from again.

Her baby was given to a police officer's family in Uruguay, who raised her as their own daughter.

Although between 10,000 and 30,000 - depending on the source of the estimate - people were ”disappeared” by Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship, the case of María Claudia García de Gelman has drawn international attention because of the intense campaign mounted by her father-in-law, renowned Argentine poet Juan Gelman.

Through his own in-depth investigation, Gelman was able to locate his missing granddaughter, Macarena, in 2000.

On Tuesday, 20 years after the restoration of democracy in Uruguay, excavations began in an army garrison near the capital, in search of María Claudia García's remains.

That is where the young ”disappeared” woman's body was buried, according to the first official military report on the ”dirty war” waged by Uruguay's 1973-1985 dictatorship.

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