Human rights organizations, unions, social groups and hundreds of thousands of Argentines marched to the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the presidential palace, to demand “memory, truth and justice” for the victims of the last military dictatorship, on the 50th anniversary of the coup.

The commemoration took place on Tuesday afternoon, with waves of people marching on the Avenida de Mayo and nearby streets towards the Casa Rosada.

With banners, artistic performances, signs and photographs, the main slogan of this year’s march was: “Tell us where they are.”

The phrase is a demand for the military and security forces to release the information about the whereabouts of some 30,000 victims of the dictatorship, most of whom remain disappeared and are known as desaparecidos. It also refers to around 300 children of those dictatorship victims who were stolen and raised under new identities, and have yet to be found.

To commemorate those victims, human........

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