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December 11, 2008

Bone Fragments Discovered at Argentine Torture Site
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Meanwhile, in Argentina, a team of forensic anthropologists say they’ve
found more than 10,000 bone fragments at a police station used to
torture prisoners during the so-called “Dirty War.” The Pozo de Arana
prison was one of 300 used to interrogate Argentine prisoners. Lead
anthropologist Luis Fondebrider said the bone fragments showed evidence
the victims had been burned.

Luis Fondebrider: “It’s been twenty-five years that we’ve been coming
for findings in cemeteries throughout the country in different
circumstances, but it’s the first time that work is being done in an
extensive form in a clandestine detention center and producing this type
of finding. But we didn’t just find mass graves, but also bodies that
had been burned within the graves.”

Up to 30,000 Argentines were killed under the 1976 to 1983 dictatorship.



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