智利母亲11月11日在圣地亚哥与两名被盗子女重逢：相隔近40年、两子自马里兰州赴智，司法报告估独裁时期约2万起强制收养
智利首都圣地亚哥消息，近 40 年前，特雷西塔·帕迪利亚的三个孩子在智利被强行带走；11 月 11 日周三，她在孩子们的出生国再次拥抱了其中两人。据路透社报道，这次重逢是活动人士的最新一场胜利，他们用 DNA 检测与细致的文件追查，揭开独裁者奥古斯托·皮诺切特时期数以千计的儿童盗窃与非正常收养。
帕迪利亚的儿子、41 岁的蒂姆·罗尔尼克与 37 岁的特拉维斯·默多克，从美国马里兰州前往智利与母亲重逢。据美联社报道，帕迪利亚在与两子见面后说，上帝把我的孩子还给了我，我曾以为永远失去了他们。两兄弟与特拉维斯的双胞胎兄弟，是在母亲仍在医院时被带走的。
智利司法报告估算，皮诺切特 17 年军政府统治期间，发生了约 2 万起强制或犯罪性收养。军政府当时认为，强制性的国际收养可以减少儿童贫困。据美联社报道，在独裁统治期间，至少有 3095 人被杀害或被强迫失踪，另有数万人因政治原因遭到酷刑或监禁。两兄弟都在美国长大。
这次重逢得益于家谱研究与 DNA 检测，并得到总部位于圣地亚哥的组织 Nos Buscamos 的帮助。该组织是活动人士与亲属为重新连接被智利收养丑闻拆散的家庭所做更广泛努力的一部分；这起丑闻是皮诺切特 1973 年至 1990 年独裁统治期间众多侵犯人权行为之一。据美联社报道，Nos Buscamos 估计，受影响的智利家庭超过 5 万个。
A Chilean Mother Reunites in Santiago on November 11 With Two Children Stolen From Her: Nearly 40 Years Later, Her Sons Travel From Maryland, and Judicial Reports Estimate About 20,000 Forced Adoptions Under the Dictatorship
SANTIAGO, Chile — Nearly 40 years after three of her children were forcibly taken from her in Chile, Teresita Padilla embraced two of them again on Wednesday, November 11, back in the country where they were born, Reuters reported. The reunion was the latest victory for activists who use DNA testing and meticulous document-hunting to uncover thousands of child thefts and irregular adoptions during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Padilla's sons Tim Rolnick, 41, and Travis Murdoch, 37, travelled from Maryland in the United States to Chile for the reunion. God gave me back my children, whom I thought I had lost forever, Padilla said moments after meeting them, the Associated Press reported. The brothers, along with Travis's twin, were taken from their biological mother while she was still in the hospital.
Authorities estimate as many as 20,000 children were forcibly taken from their parents during the 17 years of Pinochet's military regime, which argued forced international adoptions would reduce child poverty, according to Chilean judicial reports obtained by the Associated Press. During the dictatorship, at least 3,095 people were killed or forcibly disappeared, according to government figures, and tens of thousands more were tortured or jailed for political reasons. Both of Padilla's children grew up in the United States.
Genealogical research and DNA testing made the reunion possible with the help of Santiago-based organization Nos Buscamos, part of a broader effort by activists and relatives to reconnect families separated by Chile's adoption scandal, one of many human rights abuses during Pinochet's dictatorship from 1973 to 1990. Nos Buscamos estimates that more than 50,000 Chilean families have been affected, the Associated Press reported.
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