Buenos Aires, December 1 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Argentinean group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo announced it has found the son of a woman who was held captive by the military junta of the 1970s and 1980s.

The Grandmothers announced Monday that Mario Bravo’s DNA matched a woman who had lost a son during the dictatorship that lasted nearly eight years. 

Mario Bravo was taken from his mother as a child 38 years ago and given to military government supporters to be raised and educated while his mother was imprisoned.

Speaking to a local radio station, Bravo said he had been in contact with the group after having doubts about his identity and, as a result, took a DNA test in 2007.

"They interviewed me and then started testing me on dates. They asked me to come into their offices a week ago to have a chat. Then they asked my permission to announce my discovery," Bravo said.

Bravo also confirmed that he had spoken to his mother after their DNA results proved a match.

"I have talked these last few days to someone who has been re-living very difficult moments and she told me she was released after two years in captivity on condition that she had to keep silent about what had happened," he said.

The pair will be reunited Tuesday.

In most of the stolen children cases the parents, usually political dissidents, were killed by the military dictatorship.

The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, known as the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo in Spanish, is an Argentinean human rights organization formed to help reunite children with their families after many were stolen and illegally adopted during the dictatorship.

Between 9,300 and 30,000 political prisoners were taken during the “bloody war,” during the Argentinean military junta led by right-wing President Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla, who described those who were abducted by the government as "neither dead nor alive, they are disappeared (missing)."