Whose rights have been violated?
| 09:42 UK time, Monday, 7 June 2010
Marcela and Felipe Herrera do not want to know where they came from. But it looks like their government is about to tell them anyway.
The adopted children of Argentina's leading newspaper publisher have approached the . they will be forced to take a DNA test to establish whether or not they were illegally adopted. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo allege that they were illegally adopted 34 years ago with help from officials of the military junta.
Marcela insists,
"There is not a single concrete fact showing that we were taken" from the junta's imprisoned enemies...Our identity is ours. It's a private thing, and I don't think it's up to the state or the Grandmothers to come and tell us what is ours."
The case has got the Hispanic world talking. My Spanish isn't the best but if yours is, have a read of who has been in a similar situation to the Herreras and believes that establishing the truth is worth the pain.
This isn't the first case the and are known to value finding the truth over the right to privacy. Human rights activists hope the government's position will help find about 400 people stolen as babies.
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Who owns your DNA? According to Argentina it is quite possibly property of the state - which they can extract and examine as they see fit whenever they like.
Decades on, whose rights should come first- birth parents or children?
