Women organized a group, Madres de Plaza de Mayo, and marched every Thursday afternoon at half past three, for 30 years, on the Plaza de Mayo, a major square in Buenos Aires.
Many of the Disappeared women were pregnant when they were taken; babies who were born in captivity were often adopted by families of the junta. The grandmothers searched for this next generation many of lost children. Based on the book ‘’to date, they've located more than 80 grandchildren’’. The Madres de Plaza de Mayo stopped marching in 2006, but have not given up the fight to bring the military leaders of the junta to justice. In 1983, the National Commission on the Disappeared was selected to examine the fate of the Disappeared. Its report exposed the methodical
Many of the Disappeared women were pregnant when they were taken; babies who were born in captivity were often adopted by families of the junta. The grandmothers searched for this next generation many of lost children. Based on the book ‘’to date, they've located more than 80 grandchildren’’. The Madres de Plaza de Mayo stopped marching in 2006, but have not given up the fight to bring the military leaders of the junta to justice. In 1983, the National Commission on the Disappeared was selected to examine the fate of the Disappeared. Its report exposed the methodical