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Argentinian man is long lost baby

A teacher in Argentina has introduced himself as the long lost baby of an activist who was executed after she gave birth during the country's dictatorship.

Estela de Carlotto, right, and her grandson Ignacio Hurban
Ignacio Hurban, the long lost baby of an Argentine activist who was executed, has emerged in public. (AAP)

A music teacher in Argentina has emerged in public for the first time since being abruptly thrust into the limelight as a symbol of his country's reckoning with the brutal dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s.

Ignacio Hurban introduced himself to the public as the long-sought grandson of Estela de Carlotto, a human rights activist who has spent the past 36 years searching for him and other children taken from their parents during the country's "dirty war".

DNA results linked him to de Carlotto, whose daughter, Laura, a university activist, was executed in a clandestine military jail in August 1978, two months after she had given birth.

Many in Argentina knew the long-lost grandson as "Guido", the name Laura had intended to give the boy.

Asked how he would like to be addressed, Hurban said he would stick with "Ignacio", the name he has used all his life and will continue to use in his career as a musician and teacher.


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