The task of identifying victims of the dictatorship is a herculean one, starting with discovering where the military buried the bodies of their victims. The first DNA collection kits arrived two weeks ago at the Argentinian consulate general in Rome. Many Italians also travelled to Argentina during the military dictatorship to join the resistance against the far-right regime. Mothers of the Disappeared protest in Argentina in the first march against the dictatorship in 1981. “The right to identify the bodies of the desaparecidos, their children, is a fundamental right, such as freedom, health, work and education.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2021 11:51 UTC