Argentina demos commemorate disappeared

Thousands of people have demonstrated in Buenos Aires on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the start of the Argentine dictatorship.

They were commemorating the estimated thirty-thousand people who disappeared during the seven-year military regime.

Several former members of the military junta have been stripped of their immunity and now face possible charges of kidnapping the babies of political prisoners.

President Fernando de la Rua described the coup as a disgrace. A number of Latin American stars including the Cuban Pablo Milanes gave a benefit concert in aid of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo -- a pressure group campaigning to find the whereabouts of the disappeared.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service