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Today we're taking you back to December the 13th, 1983. The President of Argentina, Raoul

Alfoncine, has just signed a decree ordering the trial of the military junters

who tortured and murdered thousands of civilians.

In 2010, Candis Piet spoke to one of the survivors of Argentina's most notorious detention

centers during military rule.

It's 5.30 on a May afternoon in 1977.

Miriam Lowin, a 19-year-old student activist,

is at a bus stop on a busy intersection on her way home.

Suddenly she finds herself surrounded by a group of armed men.

They shouted police, police, and they shamped over me me and I had a sign a pill in my pocket. I tried to swallow it, but it was impossible.

They choked me and beat me up and they had lots of guns and I tried my

name and my parents phone number. A guy tried to help me. He jumped from a bus and tried to help me, but he was rapidly sent away by these guys with guns.

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