BUENOS AIRES — Argentine human rights group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo divulged the identity on Thursday of the son of a couple disappeared during the nation’s brutal 1976 to 1983 military dictatorship. Human rights groups estimate that about 30,000 people were killed by Argentina’s military government, many of them tortured beforehand. In some cases, young children of the murdered were put up for adoption and were never told of their biological parents. While he said he felt comfortable with his adopted family, he began to suspect as an adult that he may have been the child of disappeared dissidents. It is widely believed that there are still hundreds of adopted children of dissidents who still have not been identified.

Source: National Post June 14, 2019 16:30 UTC