24 March
Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice
The Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Día de la
Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia) is a public holiday in Argentina,
commemorating the victims of the Dirty War. It is held on 24 March, the anniversary of the coup d' état of 1976 that brought the National Reorganization Process to power.
Flag with images of those who disappeared during a demonstration in Buenos Aires to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the 1976 coup in Argentina.
The
Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
is a movement of Argentine mothers whose children were "disappeared" during the military dictatorship
between 1976 and 1983. They organized themselves
because they wanted to learn what happened to their children. They began to march in 1977 at the Plaza de
Mayo in Buenos Aires, in front of the Casa Rosada presidential palace, in defiance of the government's
state terrorism intended to silence all opposition.
"Mothers of the
Disappeared" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the final
track on their 1987 album The Joshua Tree. The song was inspired by lead singer Bono's experiences in Nicaragua and El Salvador in July 1986, following U2's participation in
the Conspiracy of
Hope
tour of benefit concerts for Amnesty
International. He learned of the Madres de
Plaza de Mayo, a group of women whose children had "forcibly
disappeared" at the hands of the Argentine and Chilean dictatorships.]While in Central America, he met members of Comadres, a similar
organization whose children had been abducted by the government in El Salvador.
Bono sympathized with the Madres
and Comadres and wanted to pay tribute to their cause.
Watch the video. In this video, Bono, the singer, sings, a capella, the song "Mothers of the Disappeared" in Buenos Aires, in February, 1998, as a tribute to the Madres of Plaza de Mayo.
Here you have two more videos of this song with U2' s performances in Buenos Aires.
Listen to the song again and complete the lyrics with the following words
black
daughters 
prisoner 
sons
trees 
blue 
wind
cry 
rain 
Midnight , our 1 ________ and 2 ________
Cut down, taken from us
Hear their
heartbeat
We hear
their heartbeat
In the
3 ________ we hear their laughter
In the
4 ________ we see their tears
Hear their
heartbeat
We hear
their heartbeat
Night hangs like a 5 _________
Stretched
over 6 _______ and 7 _______
Hear their
heartbeat
We hear
their heartbeat
In the
8 _______ our sons stand naked
Through the walls our daughters 9 _______
See their
tears in the rainfall
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