Between 1976 and 1983, under military rule, thousands of people in Argentina were arrested and then vanished without a trace. This campaign became known to Argentina and abroad as the "Dirty War". Seized by force against their will, the victims no longer existed as citizens. Nobody knew who exactly were responsible for their abductions or even why they had been abducted. Under a policy called the "Process of National Reorganization", successive juntas waged war against armed guerrillas and unarmed civilians. The guerillas were defeated, but the torture, disappearance and murder of innocent civilians continued for several more years thereafter. The authorities had no record of these desaparecidos. Unimaginable time went by and innocent parents and children made endless attempts to try to locate their loved ones. Fear spread throughout Argentine society, and many were afraid that they would become the next innocent victims.
From the beginning of the seventies through the present, military regimes have declared wars on the peoples of Latin America, backed by the doctrine of national security. This doctrine was adopted in order to fight the "communist threat" and allowed for the extermination of c
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" The law of due obedience presumed that officers were legitimately following orders and therefore declared all offenders to be innocent. The outrageous number of descriptions of torture demonstrated the hypocrisy of the regime's claims to be protecting security while violating the bodily security of thousands. The mothers are a symbol of courage and such dedication that has been demonstrated represents leading the struggle for justice. Although the military targeted professors, students and psychiatrists, they frequently abducted persons whose only evidence was being listed in the address book of a person previously abducted. Another human rights organization along with Madres de la Plaza de Mayo and HIJOS is also the Grandmothers of May Square or Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. According to Spain, if Argentines are unwilling to come to terms with its past, Spain is willing to do it for them. Defense lawyers argued that crimes the military was accused of committing had been if fact legal, because they had been ordered by an executive decree passed by the constitutional government that had remained in effect during this Proceso. There are a handful of human rights organizations that work against the injustices that was caused by the Dirty War. The junta also enacted the "Law of National Pacification, " granting immunity from prosecution to suspected terrorist and to every member of the armed forces for crimes committed between May 25, 1973 and June 17, 1982. Another favored target was journalists who dared to report on disappearances or criticize the regime in any way. Some of these cases are still in process in the Justice Department however. The objective of HIJOS is so that justice can be brought to those responsible of the crimes mentioned earlier. To this day the "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" demonstrate in that square before the presidential palace, demanding the truth about their vanished children. Amnesty International reported on the disappearances of two hundred intellectuals and students.
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