Maria Eugenia Sampallo discovered the identity of her true parents in 2001

Maria Eugenia Sampallo Barragan was born 30 years ago to parents she never knew. She says she was born in a clandestine torture centre following the arrest and subsequent disappearance of her real mother and her father.

Thousands of leftists and dissidents vanished after being abducted by security forces during Argentina's 1976-1983 military regime, and human rights groups say more than 200 of their children were taken and given to military or politically connected families to raise.

For Assignment, Daniel Schweimler follows the story of children like Maria Eugenia Sampallo and visits the once notorious ESMA detention centre where many of them were born.



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