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Installation on 58 disappeared babies in Argentina during the military government.
58 little t shirts with the Argentinean flag, nn in typewriter, toy soldiers
When in 1976, the Armed Forces seized control of the government of Argentina; they began to implement a systematic plan of destruction and of violation of the most fundamental human rights.
In this manner they caused 30.000 persons to disappear. Persons of all ages, from the most diverse social backgrounds. Among the disappeared there are hundreds of children who were kidnapped along with their parents or who were born in the clandestine detention centers where their pregnant mothers had been taken.
Many of these children were registered as children of members of the repressive forces; others were abandoned while others were left in institutions as children whose identity was unknown. In this way many children disappeared and their identity destroyed, depriving them of their rights, freedom and natural families.
In order to locate the disappeared children, the Grandmothers of the May Square work on four different levels; denunciations before national and foreign governments, and before the judiciary, as well as advertisements in the press directed to the general public and personal investigations.
After dramatic years of searching without stopping it had been possible to locate 58 disappeared children, of whom 8 had been murdered. Of the remaining 50, 33 are already with their legitimate families and others are in close contact with their grandparents, with their true identity restored to them by court orders.
Concourse Gallery, ECIAD (Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design), Vancouver, 2000 |
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