This afternoon
in 1977, fourteen mothers of disappeared children met for the first time.
From then on
they searched as a group, as a group they knocked on doors that would not open.
“All for all,” they said.
They said, “All
for our children.”
Thousands upon
thousands of children had been devoured by the Argentine military dictatorship,
and more than five hundred children had been kidnapped and given to officers as
war booty. The papers, radio, TV breathed not a word of it.
A few months
after their first meeting, three of those mothers, Azucena Villaflor, Esther
Ballestrino and Maria Euginia Ponce, also disappeared, just like their
children, and like them they were tortured and murdered.
But by then the
Thursday meetings were unstoppable. Their white kerchiefs moved round and round
the Plaza de Mayo and around the world.
~Eduardo
Galeano, Children of the Days
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