Argentina Releases Dictatorship Doctor Who Helped Steal Babies
Social organizations hold a sign that reads "Not forget, not forgive, not reconciliation, a thousand years of prison" in a recent march in Buenos Aires.
Social organizations hold a sign that reads "Not forget, not forgive, not reconciliation, a
thousand years of prison" in a recent march in Buenos Aires. | Photo: AFP
Published 7 May 2017 (13 hours 18 minutes ago)
The dictatorship-era doctor completed two-thirds of his sentence for aiding the military regime in stealing hundreds of babies.
Argentine social organizations have criticized a court decision to release from prison a former doctor who delivered babies of pregnant women detained in torture centers during the dictatorship and aided the military in taking away hundreds of newsborns as part of a campaign of illegally apprehending children of political dissidents, detainees and other victims of the regime.
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Under Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship, the forced disappearance of some 30,000 victims and kidnapping of hundreds of babies was part of a concerted U.S.-backed campaign that sought to stamp out resistance to the military government in what has been called a “genocide” against political dissidents. A generation of hundreds of missing children grew up in wealthy military and regime-linked families without knowing their true identities.
Bianco was part of the sinister military practice of abducting babies as a doctor at the Campo de Mayo military hospital, which operated from 1976 to 1978 during the dictatorship of General Jorge Rafael Videla. The hospital had two special rooms with barred windows where the military kept many pregnant women apprehended for their opposition to the regime.
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