Most of them never returned after their abduction. Identification of corpses found was impossible because most were maimed and unrecognizable (Malammud Goti, 1996:47).
Aside from the disappearances of accused rebels, Brysk (1994) wrote that:
"The Argentine military even introduced a new form of human rights abuse: the kidnapping of missing children. Pregnant women were detained, tortured, and mistreated until they gave birth. The mothers were killed, while the children were taken and illicitly adopted by friends and relatives of the torturers."
As Norden (1996) provided,
"I was very moved to learn that some of the found children had long been suspicious of their origins…"
Evidently, to further prevent the uprising of anti-government protesters, even innocent newborns were used to silence their families. According to globalsecurity.org, casualty count from this war ranged from 10,000 to 30,000 people.
Amidst all these, the futility of the justice system and the press were evident. The justice system merely 'heard' cases and the press feared for its safety. The only insistent and effective protesters were the relatives of those who disappeared (Nino, 1996:59). Surprisingly, a group of grandmothers organized themselves to call for justice and to find the relatives taken from them. They, however, naturally also suffered from harassments and abductions (Arditti, 1999:50).
Finally, in 1979, the Commission on Human Rights did an investigation of the claims of abuse. Their report seriously indicted the Argentine government that in 1980, its power was somewhat diminished.
In response to this, in 1982, the Argentine government invaded the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands which the Great Britain held since 1830. Their goal was to change their public image, however, much to their shame; they were defeated two months after their campaign (Nino, 1996:60).
This defeat began the end of Argentina's military regime. As Fares, et al., stated:
"The defeat Argentina suffered in this military adventure, as well as the revelations that came out of the dirty war investigations revealed an exhausted military regime."
A call for a democratic election emerged after the war and a corrective program for military abuses...
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