Léonie Duquet
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Marie Léonie Duquet, S.M.E. was one of two French Religious Sisters, members of the Sisters of the Foreign Missions based in Seysses, France, who were arrested in December 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argent
Memorial of two murdered French Religious Sisters in France, Place Alice Domon-et-Léonie-Duquet Street, Paris.
Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
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The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo is an Argentine human rights association formed in response to abuses by the National Reorganization Process, the military dictatorship by Jorge Rafael Videla. Initially t
Léonie Duquet
…President Jorge Rafael Videla during the Dirty War. Duquet and Domon had been working in poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the 1970s and supported the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, founded in 1977. Despite repeated efforts by France to trace the two Sisters, the Argentine military dictatorship was unresponsive. In 1990 a French…
Second "March of Resistance" held on 9 and 10 December 1982. The flag reads "Let the 30,000 who disappeared show up alive" (desaparecidos in Spanish)
The white shawl of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, painted on the floor in Buenos Aires, Argentina
A policeman (Carlos Gallone) and a Mother during an act of protest at Plaza de Mayo, October 1982
Mercedes Colás de Meroño