” … Invoking cultural patterns going back to the Stone Age, Sophocles’ ANTIGONE, and domestic and international law, various family members of disappeared people asked the judiciary to declare a right to truth and to mourning and an obligation to respect the human body.

” … archaeologists and anthropologists recognize in the cult of the dead a sign of humanization that is even more significant than the use of tools and fire. ‘It is through ritual that death enters the symbolic field, and such symbols are precisely what distinguish us from the rest of the animal kingdom. Those who would deny us the right to bury our dead do nothing less than deny our human condition.’ “

—— from “Confessions Of An Argentine Dirty Warrior,” by HORACIO VERBITSKY.