Identifying the unknown skeletons of Argentina’s Dirty War: Scientists begin the grim job of finding

[Judi Lynn]

Identifying the unknown skeletons of Argentina’s Dirty War: Scientists begin the grim job of finding out who victims of the conflict were

• Bones belong to victims of the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983
  
• Dirty War was waged by Argentina's military against left-wing opponents
  
• Scientists say they have found evidence of torture and bullets in skulls
  
• The military's aim was to wipe out left-wing terrorism
  
• Around 30,000 people disappeared during the military regime

By Tara Brady
PUBLISHED: 12:07 EST, 9 December 2013 | UPDATED: 12:12 EST, 9 December 2013

Forensic specialists have begun piecing together the remains of hundreds of victims from Argentina's Dirty War.
For nearly 30 years, the group of scientists from the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team have been examining skeletons from all over the world including Che Guevara's who was executed in Bolivia more than 40 years ago.

But now they have begun identifying the bones belonging to victims who died during the Argentine military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 which became known as the Dirty War.

Around 30,000 Argentinians 'disappeared' during the period and were presumed murdered by the regime.

The bones have been found in a mass grave at a secret detention centre known as Arsenal Miguel de Azcuenaga, in the northern province of Tucuman, Argentina.

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[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

1. This will be sad for them,

yet like so many places with that central variable presenting as torture and murder, people can reach a point of national catharsis if they investigate the history head on. I do hope they make it.