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Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo |
4th May 2007 |
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 In 1976, General Videla led a military coup in Argentina. Over the next 7 years, human rights groups estimate that around 30,000 people were ‘disappeared’, the majority of them liberal-minded, socially active young people. A year after the coup, a group of mothers gathered in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. They walked around the small obelisk in its centre, many with white headscarves – an allusion to the nappies of their vanished children. They have been coming to the Plaza every Thursday since and this week marks the 30th anniversary of their first march. Rachel Hopkin reports from Buenos Aires.
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