International Women's Day torture survivors in Argentina fight for justice
From: Marie Trigona
Length: 00:07:22
For more than three decades women who survived Argentina's military dictatorship have led efforts to put ex-military leader behind bars for human rights crimes. Their courage and never ending will to fight has helped re-open trials to convict former members of the military dictatorship for human rights abuses.
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For more than three decades women who survived Argentina's military dictatorship have led efforts to put ex-military leader behind bars for human rights crimes. Their courage and never ending will to fight has helped re-open trials to convict former members of the military dictatorship for human rights abuses.
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Aired on Pacifica Radio's national Women's Day programming
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Women surviving Argentina's military dictatorship and working to put ex-military leaders behind bars for human rights crimes
Lede: For more than three decades women who survived Argentina?s military dictatorship have led efforts to put ex-military leader behind bars for human rights crimes. Their courage and never ending will to fight has helped re-open trials to convict former members of the military dictatorship for human rights abuses.
Script:
((( 00:00))) [Voice Over Patricia Isasa I] 00:10
?My name is Patricia Isasa. I am 46 years old. I?m an architect. And I am a survivor of the military dictatorship?s concentration camps? or (Which one should I use?) ?What I would like is for the trials charging ex-military officers to be guided by the search for truth, to look beneath the surface and explain what happened and why. Why did the state decide to kidnap, torture, kill and...
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