Argentina's Memorial to the 'Dirty War'
Brian Byrnes for NPR
Members of the human rights group Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo march towards the ESMA building for the inauguration of the memorial.
Brian Byrnes reports from Argentina on the creation of a museum to memorialize the nation's "Dirty War" -- a tragic period in the country's recent past, when, according to some estimates, as many as 30,000 people were killed during military rule.
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