Argentina's senate has passed a landmark bill that could force hundreds of people to take DNA tests to see if their parents were some of the thousands who disappeared during the country's so-called "dirty war".<br /><br />The law calls for compulsive DNA testing of those suspected of being born in clandestine detention centres in the 1970s and 80s, when Argentina was ruled by the military.<br /><br />Children born to opponents of the regime were taken and given away to those loyal to the regime.<br /><br />While many children have volunteered for genetic tests, some have refused, fearing that the only parents they have ever known might be taken from them.<br /><br />The idea of forced tests has rekindled tensions in Argentinian society. <br /><br />Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports.
