Argentina - 1976-1983.

During the military regime 30,000 people who did not support the dictatorship disappeared. The military junta tasked themselves with saving the country from the “bad seeds.” (Matthew 13: 24-43)

Thousands of people were detained in clandestine places , no one knew what had happened to the detainees once they had disappeared.

In the 540 Clandestine Centre’s for Detention, Torture and Extermination around the country, the kidnapped people, mostly young students, were tortured and then systematically executed. Their families could only demand habeas corpus and never cease their futile search.

Thirty-five years later, what remains in Argentina is the permanent scar left by the military junta and an epoch in the country’s history that cannot be replaced.

Nevertheless the junta did not achieve its goal, the deletion of a generation’s ideals.The lives of the ex-detainees are living proof of this.

With time, those supposedly “rotten seeds” that were not eradicated have grown. The country is rebuilding the truth and owning it, learning how not to commit the same mistakes, learning how to live without fear.

The scar left by the military dictatorship is painful, but not crippling.