Hello and welcome this is the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me

Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there. This week we'll relive

Syria's eventual withdrawal from Lebanon. It was an indescribable feeling for me to see the Syrian occupying army,

the army of Basha al-Assad forced to leave Lebanon humiliated,

because it was the will of the Lebanese people.

Also in the 1980s Bulgaria's communist regime moved to crush Turkish language and culture.

It was a systematic attempt to erase the collective memory and the identity of Turks.

Plus, we remember a pioneer of psychotherapy and meet a victim of Bosnia's notorious rape camps in the 1990s.

I survived and I was there to testify against them.

I lived to put them in jail.

That's all to come.

But first, we're going back to the 1970s at a time of extreme political upheaval and tension in Argentina.

This was the era of the so-called dirty war waged by Argentina's

military rulers during which thousands of suspected left-wing sympathizers

and opposition supporters were arrested, tortured and killed. The victims became known as the disappeared.

In April 1977, 40 years ago now, a group of women held the first public demonstration demanding that the regime

release their relatives or at least reveal what had happened to those who had

vanished. It was the birth of a protest movement called the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

Mike Lanchin has been speaking to one of the women who was involved in those protests

from the very start.

Nus sent them We were always

experiencing.

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