“For us, as family members, it’s very important that the plane be part of history, because the bodies as well as the plane tell exactly what happened.”
Members of human rights organizations walk alongside one of the planes that carried out"death flights," when detainees were tossed out into the sea during Argentina's last military dictatorship, on the tarmac of the Jorge Newbery international airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, June 24, 2023.
One of the victims linked to the returned plane was Azucena Villaflor, whose son Néstor disappeared and presumably was murdered early in the dictatorship. After he went missing, she founded the group Mothers of Plaza de Mayo to demand information about disappeared children, and then was herself detained and killed.
“The planes had to be recovered because they were an important piece, like the gas chambers, a terrible tool,” Ceraudo said in an interview. Between December 1977 and February 1978, the bodies of five women, including Villaflor, two other members of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and two French nuns who were helping mothers search for their loved ones washed up. They were buried without identification, and their bodies were not identified until 2005.
This year, after Argentina's government decided to buy the plane after a campaign by De Vincenti and other human rights activists, it was located in a skydiving outfit in Phoenix.
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