Argentine media heirs fight 'Dirty War' DNA tests

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Argentine media heirs fight 'Dirty War' DNA tests

Source: BBC News

A bitter legal battle is set to come to a head in Argentina where the heirs to a media empire are fighting attempts to discover who their real parents were.

A judge has ordered that DNA tests be conducted to see if Marcela and Felipe Noble Herrera are the offspring of people killed during military rule.

Campaigners say the children were then given away by the state.

The siblings say their privacy is being violated and there is no evidence against their adoptive mother.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/latin_america/10254236.stm

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