Listening to the Bones - Part One

The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology and their quest for clues from victims' bones, that tell the stories of Latin America's "disappeared". Valeria Perasso and Alejandro Millán discover how the team was born. They visit their lab and and speak to the sons, daughters, mothers and brothers who have received the remains of their long-sought “disappeared” from the forensics’s hands. What do these bones mean to them?

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0:00.0	It's been two years and I haven't heard from my sons since I last saw him.
0:24.2	My daughter was pregnant when she vanished.
0:26.3	If they are dead, tell us.
0:28.1	Are they dead?
0:29.1	We are our children.
0:30.1	We are dead.
0:31.1	We like it because we don't know if they are sick or cold.
0:35.1	He is waiting.
0:36.1	He is waiting.
0:37.1	One is frozen in time.
0:39.5	Just waiting.
0:40.5	Waiting for them to come, you start searching and you never stop searching.
0:49.9	It's 1978.
0:51.9	Argentina is under a ruthless military dictatorship, tens of thousands Spanish.
0:58.3	They become the desaparecidos, the disappeared of the Argentine dirty war.
1:05.5	We have been searching for 39 years.
1:08.3	They were kidnapped and we always asked for them back.
1:12.0	Then we knew they were murdered, so now we just want the remains back at least.
1:25.4	This skeleton is from a cemetery where we found 19 mass graves and 18 individual graves.
1:33.5	None of them named.
1:35.3	It was one of the first skeletons we found when we were excavating in Avellaneda, just outside
1:41.4	Buenos Aires.
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