Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo announces with enormous happiness the restoration of the identity of Pablo Germán Athanasiu Laschan, another of our grandsons stolen by State terrorism, kidnapped along with his parents on April 15, 1976, when he was only five and a half months old.

In April of this year, Pablo was contacted by members of the Abuelas, and about a month ago, he voluntarily agreed to undergo the immunogenetic examination that succeeded in determining, with 99.99 percent certainty, his belonging to the Athanasiu Laschan family group.

His parents Frida Laschan Mellado was born on August 10, 1947, in Chile. Ángel Athanasiu Jara was born on September 15, 1954, also in the trans-Andean country. Both were militants of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). During the government of Salvador Allende's Unión Popular, Frida held a position at the Corporación de la Reforma Agraria (CORA).

In March 1974, following the coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet, Frida suffered political persecution. In fact, in September 1973, she had already spent several days at the police station in the city of Lautaro and later in Santiago de Chile.

Subsequently, once released, she went into exile in Buenos Aires, where she reunited with Ángel—who had escaped to Argentina some time earlier—and both began to militate in the PRT-ERP.

They lived for eight months in the Capital Federal and then moved to San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén, until mid-1975. Upon receiving warnings that they were being watched, Ángel and Frida, who was already pregnant, decided to return to Buenos Aires.

On October 29, 1975, their son, Pablo Germán, was born. In April 1976, the couple and the baby were kidnapped from the hotel where they were living, in an operation carried out by security forces within the framework of Plan Cóndor.

The case Pablo Germán was registered as the biological son of a couple with close ties to the civic-military regime, with a birth date of January 7, 1976. So close were these ties that his appropriator is currently detained in the context of a case involving crimes against humanity.

Since the kidnapping of Ángel, Frida, and Pablo, the Athanasiu and Laschan families filed various complaints and even traveled to Buenos Aires to find the whereabouts of the disappeared young people and the baby. They searched for them fruitlessly in prisons, asylums, and orphanages.

In 1982, Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo filed the complaint for his disappearance—it was one of the Association's first—before Federal Court Number 1, currently presided over by Judge María Romilda Servini de Cubría.

In April of this year, faced with information indicating that he could be the son of disappeared persons, and with the collaboration of the Human Rights Directorate of the Ministry of Security of the Nation, our institution approached the young man to invite him to provide his genetic sample.

Yesterday, finally, Pablo Germán was notified by the Comisión Nacional por el Derecho a la Identidad (CONADI) that he is the son of Frida and Ángel.

We continue to wait for them

Today, it has been exactly one year since we announced the identity restoration of the 106th grandson, Pablo Gaona Miranda. Later, that of the daughter of María de las Mercedes Moreno and, sadly, we had to communicate that the pregnancy of Mirtha Noelia Coutouné did not come to term.

There are 109 cases resolved thanks to the perseverance of the struggle, but there are still hundreds of families waiting for the reunion with the grandsons and granddaughters stolen by State terrorism.

Time passes; many of our fellow fighters are departing without the joy of the embrace. The search is increasingly urgent. Therefore, to those who doubt their origin, we, the Abuelas, say that the moment to resolve your identity is now; do not wait any longer.

Knowing who you are and where you come from will lift a weight off your shoulders and alleviate all that pain you have carried inside for more than 30 years, from the precise instant you were brutally separated from your true parents.

Source: Press release from Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, August 7, 2013

Date: 08-07-2013

On April 15, 1976, the students and MIR militants Frida Elena LASCHAN MELLADO, married to the Argentine student* Miguel Angel ATANASIU JARA, and their newborn son Pablo ATANASIU LASCHAN were detained in Buenos Aires.

The young couple had left Chile after September 11, 1973, after Frida Laschan, a CORA official in Lautaro, was detained by Carabineros in that city and prosecuted by the Military Prosecutor's Office. Both felt fear and surveillance in Argentina.

The Commission is convinced that this couple and their son were victims of forced disappearance in Argentina, in violation of their human rights, within the framework of the aforementioned situation. However, it cannot affirm, without a margin of error, the responsibility of Chilean state agents in these events.

Source: (Rettig Report)

I wish to clarify that the forcibly disappeared Mr. Miguel Angel ATHANASIU JARA, who appears in your records as an Argentine student, is of Chilean nationality, originally from the city of Mulchén, 8th region. Currently, 2 of his 4 sisters live in the city of Los Angeles (8th region).

Source: Att. Cirilo Daza. Received by memoriaviva on 12-21-2010

Connections between the dictatorships of the Southern Cone are being investigated. Plan Cóndor: the stage of the Chilean victims

In recent weeks, Chilean witnesses testified in the "Plan Cóndor" trial, where 23 military leaders of the South American dictatorships are being judged. It is expected that in the coming weeks, prosecutors and judicial authorities will travel to Paraguay to investigate disappeared militants from that country.

José De la Maza Asquet was a 27-year-old Chilean who escaped Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. He was married and a veterinary student at the Universidad de Chile. He also divided his hours with militancy.

He was a student leader of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). Following the fall of President Salvador Allende, in 1974, he began to be persecuted by Pinochet's forces and took refuge in the province of Tucumán.

Three years later, he was captured in the center of San Miguel de Tucumán and was never heard from again. His friend José Patrocinio Luna testified a few days ago before Federal Oral Tribunal No. 1. In the Plan Cóndor trial, 23 military leaders are being judged for crimes against humanity committed by the Southern Cone dictatorships against militants of opposing ideologies.

“José came escaping from Chile, I don't remember the date well,” Luna told judges Oscar Amirante, Adrián Grumberg, Pablo Laufer, and Ricardo Ángel Basílico. “We became very good friends, comrades. We built a community kitchen and carried out very strong social militancy,” said the witness.

From the front row of the public, his two children listened to him. Luna was born in the province where Independence was declared and was part of the “Tucumanazo,” a massive social protest that occurred between November 10 and 14, 1970.

De la Maza decided to enter Argentina clandestinely after being pursued by security agents in the Chilean cities of Santiago and Rancagua. In Tucumán, he continued his militancy and joined Peronist groups.

On November 1, 1977, police detained him in the center of the Tucumán capital. According to judicial sources, De la Maza was betrayed by a Chilean agent of the Dirección de Inteligencia Chilena (DINA).

Luna answered questions from ad hoc prosecutor Pablo Ouviña and the judges, who wanted to know about his ties to De la Maza. The witness said that he was imprisoned for a few months in 1978 and then went into exile. Luna said that the lawsuit for his case has been initiated in Tucumán, in the instruction stage.

The trial is in its second year—it began in March 2013—and according to judicial sources who spoke to Infojus Noticias, closing arguments are expected in March 2015. The trial's instruction, led by prosecutor Miguel Ángel Osorio, is still working on the case, and it is likely that more facts will be incorporated for the oral debate.

The trial is going through the stage of the Chilean victims; the previous one was that of the Uruguayans. It is expected that in the coming weeks, prosecutors and judicial authorities will travel to Paraguay because the next stage of the trial will deal with disappeared militants from that country.

Two weeks ago, José Luis's sister testified in the trial. Ximena De la Maza Asquet testified via videoconference from Chile. “We traveled to Tucumán to find out where my brother could be; we went to police stations and institutions, but all the leads were false.

We never heard from him again.” That hearing had a special guest: Judge Baltazar Garzón listened to Ximena's statements from the public seating in the Amia Room.

In dialogue with Infojus Noticias, the Spanish magistrate assured that day: “This trial is very important legally, for the search for truth and the reparation of the victims of dictatorial governments. And politically, it shows the decision of a State, the Argentine one, and the cooperation of others like the Chilean one, to impart justice to people whose fundamental rights were violated.”

On October 10, 1998, in a historic decision, Garzón prosecuted Augusto Pinochet Ugarte for alleged human rights violations in Chile, his native country, applying the principle of Universal Justice. He accused him of being one of the ideologues of an “international organization that conceived, developed, and executed a systematic plan of illegal detentions (kidnappings), torture, forced displacement of people, murders, and/or the disappearance of numerous people, including citizens of Argentina, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Chile, and other states.”

On April 8, 2004, in one of the expansions of the prosecution, the Spanish judge included the case of José Luis de la Maza Asquet in his accusation against Pinochet. The Chilean genocidaire died on December 10, 2006.

At the end of March, Chilean journalist Laura Elgueta Díaz testified, ratifying before the TOF her detention in the clandestine center Club Atlético, which operated in facilities of the Federal Police.

During the hearing, she pointed to the DINA agent—now deceased—Enrique Arancibia Clavel as one of her torturers, who is identified as the author of the assassination in Argentina of the Chilean general Carlos Prats. Elgueta Díaz also testified about the disappearance of her brother Luis Enrique Elgueta. Odette Magnet did the same for the disappearance of her sister, María Cecilia Magnet.

For the moment, there are 23 Chilean victims being addressed in the trial: Edgardo Enríquez Espinosa; Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz; Manuel Jesús Tamayo Martínez; Luis Gonzalo Muñoz Velázquez; Juan Humberto Hernández Zaspe; Alexei Vladimir Jaccard Siegler; José Luis De la Maza Asquet; Miguel Orellana Castro; Cristina Magdalena Carreño Araya; Ángel Athanasiú Jara; Pablo Germán Athanasiú Laschan; Frida Elena Laschan Mellado; Carlos Patricio Rojas Campos; Carmen Angélica Delard Cabezas; Gloria Ximena Delard Cabezas; José Luis Appel de la Cruz; Luis Arnaldo Zaragoza Olivares; Luis Alejandro Espinoza González; Oscar Julián Urra Ferrarese; Susana Ossola de Urra; Rafael Antonio Ferrada; Oscar Orlando Oyarzun Manso; María Cecilia Magnet Ferrero.

Source: infojusnoticias.gob.ar, 04/27/2014

Date: 04-27-2014

Relatives of Chilean victims testify in Buenos Aires in the Plan Cóndor trial

After 38 years since the coup d'état that shook Argentina, two Chilean women will testify—on Tuesday the 25th—in the courts of justice located on Coronel Py Street in Buenos Aires within the framework of the Plan Cóndor Trial, both sisters of those disappeared in July 1976: María Cecilia Magnet and Luis Enrique Elgueta.

The Plan Cóndor trial began in March 2013, and it is estimated that nearly 450 people will testify on behalf of 106 victims, among whom are 23 Chilean citizens.

“We appear in this trial, which for us is a historic moment, to vindicate the name, the life, and the convictions of our loved ones,” said Odette Magnet and Laura Elgueta, Chilean journalists.

María Cecilia Magnet, 27, disappeared on July 16 from her home on Córdoba Street, along with her husband, the Argentine doctor Guillermo Tamburini.

Luis Elgueta, 23, a student at the Music Conservatory of the Universidad de Chile, was kidnapped on July 27 from his apartment on Chiclana 2861 Street, with his Argentine partner Clarita Fernández and his sister-in-law Cecilia.

All of them were victims of Plan Cóndor, an organization that had as its goal the extermination of all those considered enemies of the military dictatorships of Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

The initiative was inaugurated by Pinochet in Santiago de Chile in November 1975.

Source: elclarin.cl, 03/24/2014

Date: 03-24-2014

THE TRUE PABLO ATHANASIU LASCHAN

In October 2008, as a journalist for La Nación, I traveled to Buenos Aires and Uruguay. I was on the trail of Pablo: the son of the Chileans disappeared under the Argentine dictatorship in Operation Cóndor, Miguel Angel Athanasiu Jara and Frida Laschan Mellado. Before that, I had had a long conversation in the city of Los Angeles with Miguel Ángel's sisters.

In Buenos Aires, I arrived at the house of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. A large ground-floor house at Virrey Cevallos 592 near Congress. I had another long conversation with the lawyer in charge of the case.

I brought some data. He provided me with others. But he asked me to keep the publication of harder, more direct background information confidential. I respected that. The Abuelas and Judge María Servini were investigating.

The Abuelas had contacted Pablo, but they did not yet know if he was the one they were looking for. There were other possible leads. But there were also several coincidences with that Pablo.

Finally, I leaned toward one. That is the story that La Nación published on October 10, 2008. A story that today falls to the ground because that Pablo G. is not the son of Miguel Ángel and Frida. One had to choose, and I chose.

The story had several features of credibility. So much so that the Abuelas would travel to the city of Piedras in Uruguay to take DNA samples from that Pablo G. He was Pablo Guedes Calandria. His appropriating father would be a Uruguayan non-commissioned officer, Asdrúbal Guedes.

The story of that Pablo is told in that 2008 article. The Uruguayan mother who, before dying, confesses to him that he is the son of disappeared guerrillas.

María Elena Athanasiu, Miguel Ángel's sister, clarified it for me today. "Pablo is not the Pablo from your article." Her Pablo, her beloved nephew, has both of his appropriating parents alive today. He, an Argentine federal police officer, is in prison for crimes against humanity.

She, his non-biological mother, is alive in Argentina. Whoever is the true Pablo Athanasiu Laschan today, of course, had the names of that policeman and his wife, "I cannot give them to you, I know them, but Pablo must be protected a lot.

He lives in a very difficult situation today. The Abuelas keep him protected. He knew at 16 that his biological parents had disappeared in Buenos Aires," said María Elena. But he has his life built with those who are his non-biological parents today. "He is a professional who loves music."

She, María Elena, and her other three sisters still cry with joy at the news. "We have been harassed by the press," she maintains, but they do not want to become figures in the foreground. "We have already forgiven. So much time has passed. We just want to be happy with this finding. Pablo knows that he has his four aunts here." They keep their brother and Frida in their hearts, always.

In the Operation Cóndor case in Chile, Miguel Ángel and Frida do not appear as victims. In the cases, only victims for whom legal actions have been filed are investigated. "We don't know if Miguel Ángel and Frida were killed by the DINA in Buenos Aires or by the security services of Argentina.

It is not known. Nor who made them disappear," says María Elena. It could have been a joint operation, as there were many.

Source: La Nacion, Thursday, August 8, 2013

Date: 08-08-2013

FAMILY OF CHILEAN KIDNAPPED BY ARGENTINE DICTATORSHIP: “IT’S LIKE A SOAP OPERA”

Five years ago, Televisión Nacional interviewed in Chile the closest relatives of Pablo Gabriel Athanasiu Laschan, who was kidnapped at 6 months of age by agents of the Argentine dictatorship to later be handed over to an adoptive family illegally.

At that moment, his aunts hoped that at some point, the human rights organizations of Argentina could find the whereabouts of their nephew and that he could recognize his true origins, just as happened this week when the real filiation of the “kidnapped baby,” who is now 38 years old, was proven with DNA data.

“This is like a soap opera,” said, on that occasion, María Elena Athanasiu, sister of Ángel Athanasiu Jara, who was detained in 1976, along with his wife Frida Laschan Mellado, by trans-Andean repressors within the framework of Operation Cóndor.

Both were captured with the little one in a home in Buenos Aires because they belonged to a trans-Andean leftist organization, after having fled from Chile where they militated in the MIR.

“When one thinks and looks back at everything that has happened. It is impressive, everything that happened, this child who I don't know where he is. It’s like I had always thought… this 30 years ago, right… what I thought was that at some point the truth would be known,” she added.

When Pablo Gabriel was 8 years old, he knew he was adopted; at 16, he knew he was the son of forcibly disappeared persons, and in April of this year, he agreed to voluntarily undergo the DNA test to know his true identity, since he currently lives under another name, which has not been revealed by the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo organization.

“This child would like to meet this family someday, to know that we are a normal family, and that here he will only find affection, respect, love… No conditions, unconditional love,” said María Elena Athanasiu.

“In our family heart, as a sister, there are no resentments, no rancor, no hatred. There is a lot of forgiveness and understanding that we had to be part of a stage in the history of our country,” she added on that occasion.

Source: La Nación.cl, Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Date: 08-07-2013

LORENA PIZARRO: FINDING A GRANDSON IS A “SATISFACTION MIXED WITH PAIN FOR THE BARBARITY”

A strange feeling of “satisfaction mixed with pain for the barbarity of the dictatorship” said the president of the Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (AFDD) of Chile, Lorena Pizarro, this Wednesday, after learning of the finding in Argentina of a grandson by the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, son of 2 Chilean students.

That is why she assures that these happy news are also a message not to forget the horror of State terrorism and to continue fighting to end impunity across the entire continent.

“This news pleases us, surprises us, and fills us with satisfaction. (Although) every time a grandson appears, even if he is not the son of Chileans, it is to face again the tremendous injustice that forced disappearance meant. And what was practiced mainly in Argentina, which was the kidnapping of minors,” she told Nación.cl.

The Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo announced this Wednesday the restoration of the identity of Pablo Germán Athanasiu Laschan, son of a couple of Chilean students—Ángel Athanasiu Jara and Frida Laschan Mellado—and appropriated during the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983), who became the 109th grandson to find out his true origin in the neighboring country.

"STATE TERRORISM"

Pizarro highlighted that “every day that a new grandson is found, that is rescued, anywhere, it fills all the relatives of the disappeared of the continent and the world with satisfaction, but always mixed with the pain of the barbarity of the dictatorships.”

And she clarified that these cases remind us of the “horror of State terrorism that was implemented so brutally in Argentina.”

“THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY CHILEANS DISAPPEARED IN ARGENTINA”

However, she admitted that this case “touches us” in a special way “because they were 2 Chilean students disappeared in Argentina. But it is also a grandson, a grandson who is recovered.”

Lorena Pizarro clarified that they did not have prior data on the progress in the search for the son of the Chileans, because “the work of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo is very stealthy, very serious, very rigorous. And that is what allows finding the children, who in reality are now adults.”

Recalling that the AFDD has always had “links with the Abuelas,” Pizarro highlighted that the important thing is that the grandsons are found. “We know this case, as we know the other cases, because they are not the only Chileans disappeared in Argentina nor in other dictatorships of the continent. Operation Cóndor is the result of that.”

END IMPUNITY

The Chilean leader also highlighted that “the best way to commemorate the 40 years of the coup in Chile is to end impunity on the continent.”

In Latin America, “the genocidaires and human rights violators have maintained a pact of silence as cowardly as the attitude they had during the years of the dictatorship, so cowardly that they tarnish the name of the Chilean Armed Forces.”

“This calls us to reflect on the importance of ending impunity so that it never happens again. Because in Chile, 40 years later, today we are surprised that a grandson of Chilean families appears who is looking for his disappeared, but there are many who still have and we have a pending answer, but above all, we need justice to be done,” she pointed out.

Source: La Nacion, Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Date: 08-07-2013

THEIR PARENTS WERE KIDNAPPED AT AUTOMOTORES ORLETTI. Another grandson may have been found

Judge María Servini de Cubría issued a request to the Chilean justice system with the object of obtaining a genetic sample from the mother of Frida Laschan Mellado, who was kidnapped in 1976 along with her partner, the Argentine Miguel Angel Athanasiu Jara, and their son of a few months.

The child (now 33 years old) may have been adopted by a Uruguayan military officer after the disappearance of his parents. The justice system is now trying to establish the veracity of this story by comparing the DNA of “Pablo” with that of his alleged grandmother. The boy's parents were detained at the Clandestine Center Automotores Orletti.

On April 15, 1976, the MIR students and militants, the Chilean Frida Elena Laschan Mellado, married to the Argentine Miguel Ángel Athanasiu Jara, and their son of a few months, Pablo Athanasiu Laschan, were detained in Buenos Aires. The couple had left Chile escaping the siege of the Military Prosecutor's Office.

First, they settled in San Martín de los Andes and later in Buenos Aires, the place where their son Pablo was born on October 29, 1975.

Six months later, in April 1976, a few weeks after the military government was established in Argentina, paramilitary groups kidnapped the couple and their baby.

According to testimonies from survivors, Laschan and Jara were detained at Automotores Orletti, with their subsequent fate completely unknown. The child, for his part, may have been adopted by a Uruguayan military officer and his wife.

The DNA request

The Argentine judge Servini de Cubría is trying to determine if the couple's son is Pablo, a 33-year-old young man who lives in the Uruguayan town of Piedras and who, according to his documentation, had his birth registered on the same day the couple was kidnapped. The young man, however, does not seem willing to undergo a genetic analysis.

After analyzing the case, the Argentine judge requested the exhumation of the corpse of Laura Mellado Garrido, Frida Laschan's mother, to be able to obtain a DNA sample that would allow it to be crossed with the genetic data of the located young man.

Source: la-foresta.ar.com, 10/13/2008

Date: 10-13-2008

The story of Pablo G., a possible kidnapped child

Abuelas de Plaza Mayo and Judge Servini de Cubría seek to know if he is the son of disappeared Chileans The woman who appropriated him, a Uruguayan wife of a military officer of that nationality, confessed to him before dying: "Your true mother is a guerrilla." The truth changed his life and he left to take refuge in Canada.

The Argentine justice system is looking for background information to prove that Pablo G. would be the son of the Chileans Ángel Athanasiu Jara and Frida Elene Lascham, who were made to disappear in Buenos Aires on April 15, 1976.

At Avenida Artigas 896 in the city of Piedras, Uruguay, apartment number 2 looks empty and is offered for rent. A neighbor of the four-story building says that Pablo left for Canada a few months ago.

"His life changed a lot since his mother, with whom he lived here, died about three years ago," says one of the building's inhabitants. Pablo became strange, started partying until dawn, had trouble with neighbors and the police, fights, and became somewhat aggressive. "It's like he isolated himself from everyone," he tells La Nación.

In the first months of 2007, Pablo took his things and left one morning "without return," said another of the residents. Today he is Pablo G.C., but he is not the same Pablo.

That was what disrupted the life of the young man, now 33 years old, and until a few years ago, an athlete, cheerful, a friend to his friends, and as healthy as a lettuce well-watered with pure water.

When the Uruguayan woman who claimed to be his mother died of an incurable disease, she told Pablo the truth: "I am not your mother, your true mother is a guerrilla," she told him.

For Pablo, who had just turned 30, the news hit him hard, because he always believed that the Uruguayan military officer Asdrúbal G. was his true father. And the dying woman surnamed C., his mother. (La Nación knows both surnames, but does not publish them out of respect for Pablo).

KIDNAPPED CHILD

The young man was then beginning to live the dramatic story of those children kidnapped along with their parents who disappeared, murdered by the Argentine dictatorship. And they—some only months old, others a year or a few years older—ended up in the hands of the appropriators, all constituting an operation that became very close to child trafficking.

Several arrived in Uruguay. The point of arrival was frequently the city of Colonia, and from there, to their new destinations, to other arms, most with bracelets, stripes, and stars, medals of merit for the crimes they committed as in all military dictatorships.

The Argentine judge María Servini, at the legal request of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, is trying to verify if Pablo is effectively the son of the Chilean MIR militants detained and made to disappear in Buenos Aires on April 15, 1976, Miguel Ángel Athanasiu Jara and Frida Elena Laschan Mellado.

Although the Rettig Report lists Miguel Angel as an "Argentine student," that is not the case. Two of his sisters tell us part of the story in Los Angeles, VIII Region.

Seeking confirmation through DNA, in October 2007, Judge Servini de Cubría ordered the exhumation from the Mulchén cemetery of Constantino Athanasiu Inostroza, Miguel Angel's father.

The bone pieces later traveled to Buenos Aires, guarded by personnel from the Chilean Legal Medical Service. Now the magistrate has ordered new expert reports to be carried out in Chile, which also relate to the DNA confirmation of the young man's true identity.

Pablo was initially willing to undergo a blood test, but for some reason, he suddenly changed his mind and went to Canada. Coincidentally, a sister of his appropriating mother lives in that country.

On our trip to Uruguay, we managed to find out that Pablo established close ties of affection with her and, to a lesser degree, with the military officer he knew as his father. We looked for Asdrúbal G. in Montevideo at an address obtained, but no one answered in the apartment after several attempts.

The military officer, attached at that time to the Ministry of Interior of the Uruguayan dictatorship, would have worked forming a special team in the repression.

Source: centroschilenos.blogia.com, 10/10/2008

Date: 10-10-2008

Correction; Angel Omar Athanasius Jara was Chilean

This is an error on the part of the Rettig Report. Angel Omar Athanasius Jara, forcibly disappeared in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in April 1976. Omar Athanasius Jara was ARGENTINE, married to Frida Laschan, and had a son; he was a student.

Source: http://www.derechoshumanos.net/lesahumanidad/informes/Informe-Rettig-tomo3