Night of the Pencils

La Noche de los Lápices

Also known as Kalemlerin Gecesi, La nuit des crayons, La notte delle matite spezzate, Die Nacht der tausend Schreie

“They were young students. They were raped, tortured, and shot.”

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.