So, let's talk about "The Disappeared."
You think that I have a typo, right? Most times I do, but today is different.
Defined by Wikipedia as "when an organization forces a person to vanish from public view, either by murder or by simple sequestration. The victim is first kidnapped, then illegally detained in concentration camps, often tortured, and finally executed and their corpse hidden. In Spanish, "disappeared people" are called "desaparecidos", a term which specifically refers to the mostly South American victims of state terrorism during the 1970s and the 1980s, in particular concerning Operation Condor."
Operation Condor just sounds dumb, right?
It was a horrible, horrible practice. People were kidnapped, tortured, and then forced or thrown out of an airplane over the Atlantic Ocean. No remains were found. Families don't know the answers to all of the questions they've been living with for 20 years.
Mothers are missing their children; Wives, their husbands; children their fathers. Women are among the missing as well. What is remarkable is who is still looking for answers.
Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich
Diana Frida Aron Svigilsky
Lumi Videla Moya
There are quite a few names listed at http://www.memoriaviva.com/english.htm, but there are a suspected 30,000 people who were killed.
Desaparecidos.org
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo - Mother of the disappeared
Mothers of the Disappeared - U2-
November 7, 2006
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Have you heard about the organ harvesting they do in China? Basically if you are a prisoner for any reason they will jerk you out so fast your head will spin if you have a tissue match with someone. Then they take your organs. They can pretty much put you in prison for anything too. Scary!
I have heard of it, there was an article in the Daily Texan not too long ago.
Yikes! I may dislike some things about American, but I am sure glad Bush doesn't want my liver!
This always makes me so sad.
Fucking Pinochet!
He might soon want it. When someone puts the story in simple enough words that he can understand and he figures out how much money they are making. He will probably remove it with his bare hands.
But at least you aren't a little boy 'cause there are a number of republicans that would want your ass!
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