My father the killer

The Documentary Podcast - A podcast by BBC World Service

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“Did you actually kill hundreds of people, Dad?” This is certainly not a question that many people feel the need to ask their parents. But for a group of young women in Argentina, it was one they could no longer ignore. Their fathers have been accused, held under trial and in some cases sentenced for some of the worst crimes in Argentina’s history – all members of the military and police forces during the country’s last and brutal dictatorship, that kidnapped, tortured and killed thousands of people over a period of seven years.