[PDF][PDF] An application of DNA sequencing to a human rights problem

MC King - Mol Genet Med, 1991 - columbia.akadns.net
Between March 1976 and December 1983, the Republic of Argentina was controlled by a
military junta responsible for the abduction, torture, and murder of thousands of citizens
(Amnesty International, 1980; Interamerican Commission on Human Rights, 1980). The total
number of victims of extrajudicial execution will probably never be known, but in December
1983, the newly elected democratic government established the National Commission on
the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP), with the request that this commission …