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The History Hour: Searching For Argentina's Disappeared

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Searching For Argentina's Disappeared

29/04/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Searching For Argentina's Disappeared

Defying Argentina's military rulers, when Syria left Lebanon and Bosnia's rape camps.

A group of women defy Argentina's military junta, the controversy around Syria's role in Lebanon, plus a pioneer of psychotherapy, and a survivor of Bosnia's notorious rape camps.

In April 1977 a group of women in Argentina held the first ever public demonstration to demand the release of thousands of opponents of the military regime. It was the start of a long campaign by the women, who became known as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Also on the programme: the controversy surrounding Syria's presence in Lebanon, plus the pioneer of psychotherapy RD Laing, Bulgaria's attempts to crush Turkish language and culture, and we hear the shocking testimony of a survivor of Bosnia's notorious rape camps.

(Photo: Mirta Baravalle of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, with a black-and-white photograph of her daughter, Ana Maria)

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