Daughter of ‘Dirty War,’ Raised by Man Who Killed Her Parents By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
Published: October 8, 2011

BUENOS AIRES — Victoria Montenegro recalls a childhood filled with chilling dinnertime
discussions. Lt. Col. Hernán Tetzlaff, the head of the family, would recount military operations
he had taken part in where “subversives” had been tortured or killed.
The discussions often ended with his “slamming his gun on the table,” she said.
It took an incessant search by a human rights group, a DNA match and almost a decade of overcoming
denial for Ms. Montenegro, 35, to realize that Colonel Tetzlaff was, in fact, not her father — nor
the hero he portrayed himself to be.
Instead, he was the man responsible for murdering her real parents and illegally taking her as his
own child, she said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/world/americas/argentinas-daughter-of-dirty-war-raised-by-man-who-killed-her-parents.html?pagewanted=allArgentina's Dirty War lessons for the world
As a victim of persecution himself, United Nations special rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez is
more than qualified for the post.
He was arrested, held and tortured during Argentina's Dirty War - an era of state-sponsored
iolence from 1976 to 1983, in which an estimated 30,000 Argentines were killed or disappeared
at the hands of the military regime.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15736895UN torture investigator was himself a victim in ArgentinaJuan Méndez was held in the 1970s in a prison linked to 30 murders of inmates and their relatives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/30/un-torture-rapporteur-victim-argentinaArgentine 'Dirty War' baby back with biological familyPablo Javier Gaona was one month old when his parents were detained by Argentine security services,
never to be seen or heard of again
An Argentine man stolen from his parents during military rule when he was just a month old has been
reunited with his biological family.
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