Roger Cohen: Argentina's lost children

[Judi Lynn]

Roger Cohen: Argentina's lost children
By Roger Cohen Published: January 13, 2008

BUENOS AIRES: As journalists, we like to think we do some good from time to time. For 20 years, I've believed I helped two Argentine children emerge from the savagery of dictatorship, find their true family and secure better lives. Now I wonder. Here's a story of truth and justice - or neither.

When the military junta that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983 seized pregnant women, it made a practice of waiting to kill them until their babies were born. The infants were then taken by childless military or police couples while the mothers were "disappeared."

I was incensed in the aftermath of the dictatorship, finding myself often in rooms filled with the animal sobbing of the bereaved.

But there was something about having a young woman give birth, only to slaughter her and steal her child, that took the Argentine state's depravity - and my anger - to a new level.

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