Sunday, October 07, 2007

Human Rights: Argentinean officials collecting blood samples from "dirty war"

Argentinean official have announced they are collecting blood samples from the families of people abducted during the country's 1976-1983 military dictatorship in an effort to identify hundreds of skeletal remains. They hope the blood samples will aid in DNA testing of about 600 unidentified bodies.

More than 11,000 people disappeared during the military's seven-year systematic crackdown on dissidents, known as Argentina's "dirty war." Human rights groups put the death toll at 30,000.