White Scarfs

Argentina historically has undergone periods of significant political unrest, including several military coups that unseated elected officials.  This most recently happened from 1976 to 1983 when the military undertook the National Reorganization Process, which, among other things, resulted in a significant number of people being “disappeared”.  This wasn’t always just the men – sometimes entire families just vanished.
 
This, understandably, upset many of the mothers and they began doing “white scarf” protests, appearing at the Square wearing white scarfs to show their disapproval.  There are now white scarfs painted on the Square and a monument placed there.

 
One of the fallouts of this is still coming to play.  Occasionally there will be public service announcements that say something along the lines that if you were born between 1976 and 1985 and have any questions regarding your parentage, please contact an agency that will do DNA testing.
 
Seems that some of the folks that were high up in the military coup “adopted” babies whose families suddenly disappeared.  These folks – who would now be adults in their 30’s and 40’s – now may have the emotional turmoil of finding out that (a) their families are not, in fact, their biological families and have hidden this from them all these years and (b) that there is a strong likelihood that their adoptive parents had something to do with the deaths of their biological parents.  This is currently the topic of several movies, including “Argentina, 1985”, which was just released and is up for an Oscar this year.