U.S., Spain, Argentina labs ID 'Dirty War' victims

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WASHINGTON — An independent group said it has identified the remains of 120 victims of Argentina's former military dictatorship.

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team announced the latest identifications this week.

Scientists at its labs in Argentina and Spain and at the Bode Technology Group Inc., in Lorton, Va., compared DNA from hundreds of victims' bone samples with the DNA from surviving relatives' blood samples to find matches.

The team has exhumed nameless skeletons from mass graves and other sites in Argentina and collected thousands of blood samples from families in recent years. More identifications are under way.

Some 12,000 people are officially listed as dead or missing from the 1976-83 junta's "Dirty War" on dissent, or nearly 30,000 by human rights estimates.