BUENOS AIRES, Argentina.- Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association called on the Argentines to paint white handkerchiefs in streets, sidewalks and squares, a symbol that identifies them in memory of the disappeared during the last military dictatorship.

“Let’s paint handkerchiefs in places where it is permissible, in squares, parks, in a campaign of struggle for life and resistance, for the love for those who are not, for the disappeared,” the president of the Mothers, Hebe de Bonafini, said.

The initiative seeks to reach each neighborhood so that on March 24, National Day for Memory, Truth and Justice, the whole Argentina will be a big handkerchief.

“In the face of the government’s advance to erase memory, let us paint the handkerchiefs that remind the disappeared, and how they are present in every young man who fights,” the campaign proclaims.