The United States holds documents that would prove that the children of the 30,000 "subversives" killed in Argentina between 1976 and 1983 were systematically appropriated by the government, said the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.
The organization, which for 30 years has sought to find their grandchildren and bring their children's killers to justice, said the files would aid in the trial regarding 11 former leaders allegedly taking the children of the killed and placing them under adoption of military families.
The trial is set to close by the end of the year.
It is estimated some 400-500 people are living under a false identity, unaware of their grandmothers' desperate attempts to find them.
Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-New York) has asked President Barack Obama to establish an executive order to declassify documents in relation to the so-called "Dirty War."
Tell Obama: Declassify Documents of the Dirty War!
We the undersigned urge you to declassify documents regarding the systematic appropriation of the children of Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
The children who were illegally adopted by military families continue to live unaware of the families who have desperately searched for them for 30 years.
The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo have found evidence in a 1982 memo alluding to the systematic appropriation, but in order to bring the perpetrators to justice and find the list children, these documents must be declassified.
Please help the families of the killed find closure to their tragedy.
Thank you for taking our concerns into serious consideration.
