Meanwhile, in Argentina, a team of forensic anthropologists say they’ve found more than 10,000 bone fragments at a police station used to torture prisoners during the so-called “Dirty War.” The Pozo de Arana prison was one of 300 used to interrogate Argentine prisoners. Lead anthropologist Luis Fondebrider said the bone fragments showed evidence the victims had been burned.
Luis Fondebrider: “It’s been twenty-five years that we’ve been coming for findings in cemeteries throughout the country in different circumstances, but it’s the first time that work is being done in an extensive form in a clandestine detention center and producing this type of finding. But we didn’t just find mass graves, but also bodies that had been burned within the graves.”
Up to 30,000 Argentines were killed under the 1976 to 1983 dictatorship.