(25 Mar 2001)
March 24
1. Wide view of people gathered at Casa Rosada
2. People playing drums
3. Elderly woman being embraced
4. High wide view of elderly women lined up and leading march
5. People in procession
6. Banners being held up by hundreds of people
7. Reverse view of marchers
8. Various of line of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo leading procession holding banner
9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Hebe de Bonafini, President of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo "There is no democracy here in Argentina. Democracy does not exist in Argentina. It is worse now than during the military dictatorship. The government is an oppressor that does not give its people work or a place to live. Democracy is not just to vote. Democracy means to participate and to have equality."
10. Various wide views of marchers passing obelisk
11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Mercedes Meronio, Mother of the Plaza de Mayo "Today we are in a fighting mood. We feel we are living for something important. We feel that our children are present. We feel that the youth are present. We feel love, strength and liberty. The freedom that we will get with our bravery - because we are not afraid, because we do not need anything from the system. And we can be bought with money. They cannot but the blood of our children. Spilt blood is not to be negotiated. We are proud of our children. We feel well. We are old but we think like young people. This is how we are."
12. We view of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo with huge procession behind them, walking towards camera
13. People in the procession performing/ acting in the street
March 23
14. Wide view of concert to mark 25th anniversary
15. Poster for anniversary
16. Various of concert showing musicians and audience
STORYLINE:
Twenty-five years after the military coup that unleashed seven years of terror in Argentina, the ageing mothers of the victims still circle the Plaza de Mayo each week demanding justice.
They have marched now on nearly one thousand two hundred Thursdays since 1977, when they began challenging the dictatorship they blame for taking their children away.
On Saturday, nearly a thousand marchers opposed to the former junta rule rallied in the capital, recalling the March 24, 1976, coup, in which General Jorge Rafael Videla ousted Isabel Peron.
In the crackdown on leftist dissidents that followed thousands died.
The marchers spilled into the streets around the Plaza de Mayo, snarling traffic as they walked, shaking their fists in the air.
Before democracy was restored in 1983, human rights groups say up to 30 thousand people were killed or disappeared as the military waged a campaign against its opponents.
A government report lists nine thousand victims.
After democracy returned, top military officers were dealt life sentences for their crimes, only to be pardoned by former president Carlos Menem in 1990.
Immunity was also granted for lower-ranking military officials who committed crimes on orders of superiors.
Yet a recent judge's decision to strike down these immunity laws has given hope to the mothers that the violators may pay for their crimes.
But for all the energy expended on making sure the younger generation does not forget the Dirty War, many say it is futile to look back.
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