Army Abducted Guatemalan Children Adopted in 1980s

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Hundreds of Guatemalan children adopted in the early 1980s were stolen from their parents by the army during the country's civil war, a national commission said on Monday.

"We have registered 1,084 cases of children disappeared in Guatemala -- and between 1979-1984, 500 of these were adopted," commission coordinator Axel Mejia told Reuters.
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The National Abducted Child Search Commission, set up to reunite abducted children with their parents, has made contact with a number of families, including one in Tennessee and one in France, who unwittingly adopted stolen children.
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Guatemala has the world's highest per capita overseas adoption rate and refuses to reform its adoption laws, which have been criticized by the United Nations.
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