\n The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo marked four decades Sunday of marching for accountability in the abductions of their kin by Argentina's last dictatorship.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Stay alert, Stay alert; they're alive ... the ideals of the abducted\" and presumed dead, thousands of marchers in Buenos Aires sang in the square they helped make famous.\n<\/p>\n
\n Out front was founder Hebe de Bonafini, now 88, her wheelchair pushed by activists, as onlookers jostled to get her picture.\n<\/p>\n
\n The four-decade milestone found members increasingly frail but ever determined to see their children's killers brought to justice.\n<\/p>\n
\n Defying their advancing years, the bereaved mothers who make up Argentina's most famous human rights group still gather every week in the square outside Argentina's pink presidential palace.\n<\/p>\n
\n After all these years they are still demanding answers on what happened to the children they lost during the country's brutal military dictatorship.\n<\/p>\n
\n The group was born on April 30, 1977, when 14 women gathered to protest the military dictatorship installed in a coup the year before.\n<\/p>\n
\n They dared to challenge the regime at a time when repression was at its height.\n<\/p>\n
\n They risked the same fate as their political activist children -- torture, death or simply disappearing without a trace. Instead, the generals tried to laugh them off.\n<\/p>\n
\n Some 30,000 people were abducted and presumed killed by the regime or right-wing death squads in the 1970s and 1980s.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Thirty thousand reasons to keep on fighting,\" read one marcher's sign.\n<\/p>\n
\n About 700 people have been convicted of crimes against humanity from the last dictatorship's era, most of them military brass. Some retrials are still under way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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