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Argentine mothers still seek justice for missing children

by Q COSTARICA Thursday 1 June 2017, 10:35 am 1k Views

Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo activist during a demonstration against the Supreme Court decision to reduce detention time for torturers from Argentina’s military dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 10, 2017. Photo Reuters
(Q24N) As Argentina reverses a decision to release torturers from its era of dictatorship from prison, mothers of missing persons are still looking for answers 40 years on.
Argentina has been a democracy since 1983. But one group of women, all over 80, still protest every single Thursday to make sure the crimes of the past are not forgotten, nor forgiven.
Ninety-three-year-old Mirta de Baravalle has been turning up at Plaza de Mayo every Thursday since 1977, where she holds up the pictures of her daughter, Ana Maria, and her son in law, Julio