DNA Identification Applied to Human Rights
Let me shift gears, and talk about a different application than the United States criminal courts. It's an application to a human rights problem, the work of a colleague of mine.
In 1975, the military in Argentina overthrew the government of Ysabel Peron, and this was a very rigid ideological military. It was a military which said such things as the following quote from the military governor of Buenos Aires, a direct quote from a speech to the public: "First, we will kill all the subversives, then we will kill their collaborators, then their sympathizers, then those who remain indifferent, and finally, we will kill the timid."
They had a lot of enemies indeed. I note for you just briefly, the roots of their "tree of subversion" are Marxism, Zionism, and Free Masonry. But other important branches included liberals, evangelicals, the Anglicans, and even the Rotary Club.
The military junta set out in a systematic fashion to eradicate the opposition and to terrorize society, and did so with sweeps through neighborhoods, picking up subversives and non-subversives, rather indiscriminately, taking whole families....at times, young families. Many people disappeared, and no one knew because of the lack of coverage, the actual scope of what was going on. They only knew their own children had disappeared.
  
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