Argentina Buries Coup Victims After 50 Years

0:00It's March 23rd. Welcome in. This is Canada News Today, where local news meets AI. Family members in Argentina's Tukumin Province finally buried the remains of journalist Eduardo Ramos and psychologist Alicia Serrota 50 years after their kidnapping by military forces following the 1976 coup. The young couple, both in their 20s, vanished amid a dictatorship that disappeared thousands of people labeled as subversives. Both counts put the number at around 8,000. The rights groups say it reached 30,000. Earlier this week, relatives placed the urns in a new mausoleum during a somber ceremony under gray skies. The remains came from Pozo de Vargas, the largest known mass gray from that era, a deep pit near a railway where soldiers dumped over 100. Forty bodies of activists, students, and workers then buried them under dirt and debris. For the families, this burial brings a mix of relief and closure after decades of searching.

1:00Eduardo's sister described it as, overwhelming, yet liberating, marking her final goodbye to a brother she last saw as a teenager. Many relatives have spent years pushing for identifications since the democracy returned in 1983. Archaeologists first uncovered bones there in 2004, but full digs and lab work by forensic experts dragged on for years due to limited, so poor him. Still far, they've identified 121 people from the site, with 28 still pending, part of over 1,600 exund. Nationwide, half-matched to names. Meanwhile, challenges persist as Argentina's current government has cut funding for human rights teams and archives that could reveal more graves. That mausoleum still has empty spots, waiting for the next families to find peace.