Argentine human rights activist dies at the age of 106

Argentine human rights activist Rosa Liblit died at the age of 106, her organization says.

She was honorary president and founder of Grandma Plaza de Maya, a group who sought the children stolen during the Argentina military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

“We only have gratitude for her dedication … And the love with which she sought grandchildren and grandchildren until the very end,” the company said.

About 30,000 people died or forcibly disappeared during Argentina’s “dirty war”. The children of the detained opposition activists were confiscated and abandoned.

Rosa Libra was born in 1919 in Moois Vile, the city of Jewish immigrants in Central Argentina.

She worked as an obstetrician and moved to Buenos -Aires in 1949, where she married in 1951.

After the March 1976 military coup moved the junta to eradicate the opposition. Tens of thousands of activists were torn into raids and conducted in underground detention and torture centers.

Many were thrown into the sea on the notorious “death flights”. According to estimates, 500 of them The children were stolen.

Pregnant daughter Library Patricia, son-in-law Jose Perez Rhoja and a 15-month-old granddaughter, were abducted in 1978. The couple were left -wing activists.

The family was transferred to a school known as ESMA, which was the largest detention center in Buenos -Aires.

Patricia Library was kept alive long enough to give birth to a son in the basement. The bodies of the couple have never been found. Mariana was returned to the rose that raised her.

A newborn baby was given to an air force intelligence officer to educate.

After the abduction of the Library family, he joined the grandmother Plaza de-May and held the post of treasurer six years before working the vice president from 1989 to 2022.

Her grandson was found In 2000, his sister Mariano and through the work of Grandma Plaza de my.

Foster parents gave him the name of Guillermo Francis Gomez: Francis Gomez and Theodore Joffre.

He reunited with Rosa and Mariana, after DNA testing confirmed that they were connected.

Roisinblit was in the courtroom in 2016 when Gomez was imprisoned for the abduction of Guillermo. Joffre was sentenced separately in three years of imprisonment.

Later in the same year, Omar graphyFormer Air Force head and former intelligence officer Luis Trill were sentenced to 25 years for the abduction and torture of Patricia and Jose.

They were among hundreds of soldiers and leaders who were involved in persecution for human rights abuses.

At the age of 96, Roisinblit was present in court with Guillermo and Mariana.

A year later, she told AFP: “This wound is never healing … But saying, I stop? No, I’ll never stop.”

140 babies estimate have reunited with their biological parents through the work of organizations such as Grandma Plaza de May. Hundreds are still missing.

“We are fighting, but heroes are our children who have risen against a rigid dictatorship and gave their lives for the best country,” Losblit said.

Guillermo is a human rights lawyer and works with grandmother -de -May, continuing her grandmother’s inheritance.

In a message on X on Saturday, he said, “My grandmother has gone out of life, and outside the sadness I feel, it comforted me thinking that after 46 years she reunters my mom and her great love, my grandfather Benjamin.”

Rosa Libra also survived the granddaughter of Marian Eve Perez, writer, playwright and academician.