Santa Cruz Parish
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| It is the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who, early in the dictatorship,
found the courage and love to counteract the fear that
gripped the nation. Those who spoke out in any way about
the disappeared risked being disappeared themselves. And
the mothers took that risk, searching for information
about their missing children in police stations,
barracks, government buildings. The mothers explain what they think was behind what they plainly call terrorism of state: "The generation that disappeared were the ones that informed the rest of society about their rights: housing, food, civil rights, etc. Empire and Multinationals didn't want the people to know about their rights. Early in their organizing, the Madres were given another stunning blow. At a church meeting at Santa Cruz parish, a group was organizing the raising of money to put an ad in the paper listing the names of the disappeared. At meetings end, through the actions of a covert informant, several of the mothers, 2 French nuns and others were kidnapped between the church and the street, shoved into cars, and disappeared, never to be seen or heard of again. Until this year. Several years ago, some remains washed up on the shore of the sea, were discovered and buried in a grave designated "NN" - No Names. Last year they were dug up, DNA tested, and shown to be the remains of the 3 Mothers and the 2 nuns. The military regime disposed of them by throwing them from an airplane into the sea, as they did to so many victims after torturing them. These were the famous "flights" carried out by the Argentine Navy. [See also: ESMA & Campo de Mayo]
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