Adriana Metz, daughter of Graciela Alicia Romero and Raul Eugenio Metz, who disappeared during the 1976 to 1983 Argentine dictatorship, and Estela de Carlotto, president of the human rights organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo), react during a press conference announc
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The 49-year-old man was found after taking a DNA test and is now the 140th child recovered by the human rights organization Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
A man stolen from his mother under the Argentine dictatorship has been reunited with his grandparents nearly 50 years after he was stolen from his mother, a left-wing activist, who was detained and murdered in captivity, according to an NGO returning the children of murdered and abducted activists and international media reports.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the 49-year-old man was found after taking a DNA test and is now the 140th child recovered by the human rights organization Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
Abuse under Argentina’s military dictatorship
Graciela Alicia Romero and Raúl Eugenio Metz, the parents of the unnamed man, were left-wing activists captured by military personnel on December 16, 1976.
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Romero was five months pregnant when authorities detained her, and she was murdered shortly after she gave birth on April 17, 1977, at the La Escuelita detention center in Bahia Blanca.
Witnesses testified that Romero was tortured during her captivity.
It is believed that as many as 500 babies were taken during the military dictatorship (1976-1983), where 30,000 people were killed or remain missing.
Many of the babies were given to people close to the dictatorship, according to CBS News.
Metz Romero, the sister of the unnamed man, told the media, “We decided to call him to find out if he would agree to a DNA test. He agreed, and it was confirmed that he is my brother.” – TJP
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