Needs Source: Star Tribune, 08 Aug 1996: 10.A.

A country's missing children // Confronting a wartime secret // During the war in El Salvador, hundreds of children were stolen and sent to orphanages or to adoptive families. A human rights group is now trying to reunite them with their Salvadoran families.: [METRO Edition]
Rohter, Larry
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He was only 5 when he saw his mother and younger brother killed and the soldiers took him away to their base in a helicopter. She was just 6 when she was separated from her parents during a bombing raid and delivered to an orphanage in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Amilcar Guardado, who is about to turn 22, was raised by military officers on an air force base. Imelda Lainez, now 17, was adopted by a family in the United States, where she was given the name Gina Marie Craig.

Now both have been reunited with their original families, beneficiaries of a private investigative program that has forced El Salvador to confront one of the darkest secrets of its civil war, which lasted from October 1979 to January 1992.








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