Buenos Aires ¨C They were young ¡ª some students, some politicized, some not ¡ª when they faced unchecked brutality in secret detention centers under Argentina¡¯s military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
They lived to tell a tale that many others could not ¡ª thousands of people were killed in more than 600 such centers over nearly eight years.
Fifty years later, memories of the torture, hunger and the screams of fellow prisoners still come back as if the so-called ¡°Dirty War¡± were yesterday, three of them said.
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