One of the Grandmothers of the founders of the Plaza de Mayo, an NGO founded for the purpose of finding children stolen by the military dictatorship in Argentina, found Thursday evening her granddaughter, 39 years after her disappearance.
Thirty-nine years of research "for a beautiful 2015 Christmas gift". Maria "Chicha" Mariani, one of the founders of the "Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo", an NGO that looks for missing children since 1977 under the Argentine military junta (1976-1983), has just found her grand-daughter. Clara Anahi, missing in November 24, 1976 at the age of three months, is the 120th child "stolen" by the junta to be identified, announced Thursday, December 24, the Anahi Foundation.
Clara Anahi was abducted by a police car, after the assassination of her mother during a raid by security forces in their home in La Plata, 60 km south of Buenos Aires. Clara Anahi, in which the baby picture was broadcast for decades each of her birthdays, for her part showed "perseverance to find a way to reach her grandmother and to ensure with the use analyzes their genetic links, "now" established at 99.9%. "
The reunion between Clara and her grandmother is "a joy that cannot however avoid the work that remains to be done," says the association: about 380 babies of political opponents abducted from their mothers or born in captivity on a total of 500, and then adopted by the dignitaries of the military regime still missing.
Halimi Meriem