Present estimates for the number of people who were killed or disappeared range from 9,089 to over 30,000; The military themselves reported killing 22,000 people in a 1978 communication to Chilean Intelligence, and the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which are the most important Human-Rights Organisations in Argentina, have always jointly maintained that the number of disappeared is unequivocally 30,000. Since 1983 Argentina has maintained democracy as its ruling system.
Estimates for deaths or disappearances range from 9,089 to over 30,000; The military reported killing 22,000 people in a 1978 communication to Chilean Intelligence, and the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Argentina's leading human rights organizations, have consistently asserted that the number of disappeared is 30,000. Since 1983, Argentina has been governed democratically.