ALGECIRAS/LA LÍNEA/SPAIN (Agencies) Two more cases of babies reported dead but unregistered as such in Algeciras were reported last week, and two more earlier this week. The circumstances are similar to those we reported here. One of them is from a birth in 1975, and another from 1969, well within the Franco dictatorship, when people, especially the poorer, less educated, dared to ask too many questions. The nature of the deaths was never clearly ascertained and burials were never registered at the cemetries. Both these more recently reported cases have connections to the old Caridad (Charity) hospital in Algeciras -no longer in existence - though one baby was reportedly transferred to La Línea and never seen again.>
A recent television report on Televisión Española had a map with the places and number of reported suspicious cases, which is also published on the website of an organization formed to put the cases together and demand investigation of the possibility of a nationwide network of baby robberies, which the organizaion says could be 'more than 300,000.
Similar such events have been reported during dictatorships all over the world. For instance, the only specific charges (i.e. non-generic such as 'crimes against Humaity') ever sought against General Videla of Argentina was when he was accused and found guilty of allowing these practices.
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