100,000 Argentines gather to remember the desaparecidos

(desaparecidos is spanish for "those who disappeared...")



100,000 march yesterday
in Buenos Aires

last week, the argentina congress passed a resolution declaring a new national feriado (holiday) to commemorate the launching of the march 24, 1976 coup that toppled argentina's constitutional government and opened the door to the deadliest dictatorship in argentine history... yesterday was the first official national "day of remembering..."

100,000 people gathered at the Plaza de Mayo square in front of Government House to repudiate the seven-year regime that human rights groups and President Néstor Kirchner say killed or made to disappear 30,000 people.

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"Thirty Years of Life Defeating Death!" and "Not One Step Back!" read large banners strung alongside black-and-white photographs of victims of the so-called Dirty War, as many cried and lit candles. Some 3,600 photos of victims were projected — one per second — onto the white stone flanks of the towering Buenos Aires Obelisk.

understandably, the dirty war is a difficult subject for argentines to talk about and, when they do, their voices drop and their heads hang down... most everyone i've met either lost someone close to them or knows someone who did... it's good that they're not allowing the lost to be forgotten...

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