Reply #63: I just looked up his name, almost wish I hadn't! What a legacy...... [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Friday, February 12, 1999 Published at 04:45 GMT

Argentina's missing babies

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Mothers killed in detention

Last year, Judge Roberto Marquevich stunned public opinion by ordering the arrest of former army chief Jorge Videla over the theft of babies, which had been excluded from the amnesty laws passed after the end of military rule.

The babies were treated like any household implement, Judge Roberto Marquevich told me. It appears that in some detention centres there were not only warehouses containing furniture, cars and other items robbed from the prisoners, but also lists of military couples waiting to adopt children.

Babies born to pretty, white-skinned mothers were particularly sought after. Blindfolded at all times, the women would be taken down to special cells, forced to have caesareans and then often killed.

When democracy returned to Argentina, some of the children were returned to their families by brave judges such as Roberto Marquevich.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/269834.stm