The Effects of the Dirty War of the 1970s in Argentina

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How does “Official Story” link Dirty War violence with stories and situations of everyday life? The Argentina’s Dirty War in in the 1970s was one of the wars in Southern America during which human rights were severely abused. Children and women were mostly affected during the Dirty War. The movie “Official Story” portrays the kidnapping of children associated the Dirty War in Argentina. It also shows agony barren women go through in their marital homes. The movie “Official Story” links the Dirty War violence with stories and situations of everyday life in many ways. One of the ways “Official Story” links the Dirty War violence with stories and situations of life is the disappearance of children. Pregnant women who were poor never set their eyes on their children they held in their wombs for nine months. The wealthy class paid health workers who helped these women in labor in order to help them kidnap babies as soon as they born. There is a situation in the movie like that whereby a wealthy man kidnaps a baby and gives it to her barren wife. Being a woman and a witness of what happening around that time, she decided to trace the little girl’s family. The situation is not different from what we see in our daily lives as country, community or even a society. We hear from the civil wars around the world about kidnapping. For example, many children were kidnapped in Liberia, Sierra Leone, The Congo, Burundi, just to mentioned a few, and later trained them to be child soldiers. Another characteristic of the Dirty War that we see today in everyday life is torture. Again, in the war torn countries, we hear of people who are captured and tortured due to wars. In Liberia, during the civil war, many people were captured and parts of the bodies were chopped off. For instance, many people lost their arms and legs as a result of torture during the wars in Burundi and

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