Bono salutes Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Singer Bono and the band U2 saluted the ageing Argentinian Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo at their final concert in Buenos Aires last night, honouring the human rights group that arose during Argentina’s past dictatorship.
Five of the famously handkerchiefed Mothers, whose sons and daughters went missing during a state crackdown on dissent during the 1976-83 junta era, were on hand for the last of two concerts U2 gave before more than 60,000 fans at a soccer stadium.
Bono sang “Miss Sarajevo” and walked out across a platform near where the Mothers were standing. He singled them out and urged the audience to work across the political spectrum for world peace.
“Let’s work together, left and right, rich and poor, young and old,” Bono said before performing his hit ”One.”
The Mothers have been marching weekly for a quarter century, pressing for information about those killed or still missing from the seven-year “Dirty War” crackdown. An official accounting lists at least 13,000 victims while human rights groups say the toll is at least twice that.
