Summary
In Argentina during the dirty wars, the individuals that opposed the government had been drugged and threw out of an airplane into the Atlantic Ocean. They didn’t find any dead bodies so there was no proof that the government had been involved in this. An active group called Mothers of the plaza de mayo they were formed during the dirty wars. “They are either dead nor alive, they disappear.” As said by the General Jorje Rafael Videla. The dirty wars was occurring the years of 1976 and 1983, they have believe that 30,000 desaparecidos. There is other country other than Argentina that has experienced the forces of disappearances. In the year of 2009 the prosecutors of Columbia have reported that 28,000 individuals have been force to be gone by the guerrilla and paramilitary groups. The first country that has been discovered of disappearances is Guatemala. 45,000 have been reported disappeared In Guatemala. The military secretly disappeared, kidnapped, and tortured thousands of the Argentine citizens. Their goal was to keep them from the public and away, they never wanted to merely them. The military target was on the social activists, Marxists, left leaning Peronists, Jews, catholic clergy working in slums, student activists, and even people that was considered to have suspicious professions such as a psychologists and sociologists. The military and police agents in civilian clothing were the ones that carried the kidnappings, or the disappearances they were driving an unmarked vehicles. They were drived to the 340 secret detention centers as known as Centros Clandestinos de Detencion or CCDs, where they were held indefinitely and subjected to extreme torture including rape, electroduction with cattle prods, beatings, and genital mutilation with razor blades. They were either killed or they had been released in a random location with the express threat of violence if they came forward and spoke publicy about what has happen. The bodies that were murdered and had been disappeared were either buried in mass graves, burned, or were tossed into the ocean. The families and friends were not told where their loved ones were held and the bodies of the murdered disappeared were not returned to their families. The exact number of the disappearance and their fates are unknown are even today. Monica Graciela Santucho one of the victim’s which, she was only 14 years old when she had got kidnapped. December 3, 1976 about 5:30 p.m. there were shots that were exchanged with the Army from a house situated on streets. Monica Graciela went out into the streets with two other children, calling for the shooting to stop. They blindfolded her and they put her into a white fiat 600 that was driven by heavily armed civilians. They had witnesses and later when they were freed from prison said they saw her in the secret detention centre known as Arana. Even today she is still on the disappeared list.
Opinion
This is a horrible situation and I don’t see why anyone would ever in their mind think about doing this to innocent people. No matter what they have done in their life, in the past, anything no one should ever do this kind of things to children, men, and women! It is the most crucial thing anyone could have ever done to anyone! I think that these people really need help if they are going to go around and do this to innocent people they really need to get some therapy. No matter what you are, white, black, jew’s, catholic, anything I really think that they shouldn’t have ever done that. Especially to a 14 year old girl that I was talking about name Monica, seriously she was only 14, she should have had more in her life instead of having people with no heart do this kind of thing to her. I have no words to explain how I feel about this and if I have words to explain how I feel about this, they are not school appropriate. I don’t even understand what was going through their head when they did this to these innocent people. I don’t see how anyone would want to torture someone like this; I mean really I really don’t see what they were thinking in their head, why would they do this? I know people make mistakes, but not big mistakes for kidnapping them, murdering them I think they have gone too far when they do that kind of stuff. Even when they don’t even tell their family, friends what has happen to their children, cousins, daughter, husband I think that is the most horrible thing that was going on in this situation? They just take someone away from their family, made their family think that they just left them…this is so sad. I don’t really see why anyone in their own mind who kidnap anyone! I think these people are horrible, and they should be the ones that get torture but I know in my own mind no matter what I wouldn’t torture anyone LIKE THAT!! They throw people into the water and leave them there, oh what is wrong with these people!? I just don’t get it! I don’t really know what to think about this, I just think that it’s the most horrible thing that anyone could ever do! So I really don’t know what I should say in my opinion I think I have said a lot as it is! They make me so mad, and upset for ever doing this to anyone! I want them to go to prison for this and never ever get out! They can rot in prison for all I care! It makes me cry because I just kind of think about the kids that are suffering out there and I know that I have it better then I think I do! I wish I could help the kids that are suffering or do something for them but I know that there not much I can do, I am only 17 years old but if I could ever yell at the military people that were doing this to these people I would yell at them and everything! Then during the dirty wars they were drugged out and thrown out of a plane into the Atlantic Ocean! See this is disgusting how they have done this, I mean just killing someone I just don’t see why anyone would have ever do this! I have not much to say because I just don’t get it, I don’t get any of it why they would, what was going through their head during this. While reading this I think I was speechless, scared, frighten for the people that were going through this. If someone dragged me out of my house in the middle of the night, just thinking about it scares me, I really don’t know what I would think or do. I know that I wouldn’t be able to live without seeing my sisters, brother, or my parents I wouldn’t be able to do at all! So for the people that had to go through this I am very sorry for them because I know I wouldn’t be able to be away from my family like this!
