For more news & videos visit ☛http://english.ntdtv.com<br /><br />Leaders during Argentina's "Dirty War," the bloody military dictatorship from 1976-1983, go on trial on charges of stealing babies of victims. The dictatorship brought torture and death to thousands of people in Argentina.<br /><br />Former leaders of Argentina's 'Dirty War', the bloody military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, went on trial Monday.<br /><br />They are being charged in 34 different cases with kidnapping the children of their victims during a roundup of suspected leftist insurgents.<br /><br />Former military leaders Jorge Rafael Videla and Reynaldo Bignone were among the accused.<br /><br />In their systematized crackdown, the Dirty War dictatorship tortured and killed as many as 30,000 people, many of them young activists with infants.<br /><br />Soldiers scooped up children and army officials changed their identity, placing them in homes with military sympathizers.<br /><br />Human rights groups have worked for years trying to uncover the stolen children, recovering 100 of them.<br /><br />When democracy returned to Argentina in 1983, Videla was sentenced to life imprisonment for human rights crimes but was later acquitted.<br /><br />A recent trial jailed Videla for life on charges of murder, torture and kidnapping.<br /><br />Rosa Roisinblit is the vice president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.<br /><br />She explained that this is the first trial for kidnapping infants.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Victoria Donda, a government representative who was at Monday's trial, is among the recovered children.<br /><br />She was born in a secret prison and both of her parents were among the "disappeared."<br /><br />Donda discovered her true identity in 2003.<br /><br />[Victoria Donda, Government Representative & Recovered Child]:<br />"It's also a demonstration that justice can be carried out even though time has passed, and the only things that heal societies are justice and truth. I think it's an example for other countries who are on this road of looking for justice, Spain, Germany, countries where children have also been kidnapped."
