They call them the children of silence: twenty thousand children stolen during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) in Chile. Removed from their families as soon as they were born, sent for adoption, sold, in Europe or North America.
A mosaic of horror to which a new piece is added: 55 of them arrived in Italy.
Those born in 1990, according to some testimonies, were taken to an orphanage and from there, it seems, to Sardinia.
The unpublished data from the civil police was released within the framework of the fourth congress of the Sons and Mothers of Silence Foundation, on the occasion of the presentation of the research campaign.
An initiative which, by virtue of the collaboration with the Cheil Chile agency, will be able to count on images created from scratch of what those babies could be like today.
An operation possible thanks to the combination of digital genetics and artificial intelligence, with videos and photos that will be disseminated in the research countries.
There are 1,144 reports of minors destined for families in Sweden (178), Chile (119), United States (90), Italy (55), France (30) and other countries.
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