Argentina’s last dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, is facing a new trial over the kidnappings and disappearances of political opponents and the deliberate theft of babies from political prisoners. Bignone and two other defendants are already serving jail sentences for other abuses under Argentina’s military regime. A lawyer for the group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo said the defendants presided over the disappearances of thousands of people.

Mariano Gaitán: “In this area where the military center was Campo de Mayo, an estimated 5,000 comrades disappeared. Among them were many women who were pregnant or who had young children that were kidnapped. The Grandmothers are still looking for many of these children. They have found some of them, but they continue looking and also searching for justice for the disappearances and deaths of these people.”

It is believed the Argentine military dictatorship killed at least 30,000 Argentines during its rule from 1976 to 1983.