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Opening Old Wounds; Nestor Kirchner wants justice for victims of the 1970s junta, but critics say his ideas are out of date.
Byline: Joseph Contreras and Peter Hudson (With Jimmy Langman in Santiago and Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro)
Between 1976 and 1983, tens of thousands of Argentines were murdered or "disappeared" under a brutal military dictatorship. Some of the survivors of the infamous Dirty War call themselves the "devastated generation." They represent a star-crossed cohort of young people whose left-wing politics were forged by the turbulent years of Peronist rule in the mid-1970s, only to run into the murderous maw of the generals and admirals who deposed Isabel Peron in 1976. Of the estimated 30,000 Argentines who were killed or disappeared, about 60 percent of the victims ...
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