Read the excerpt below (from Wikipedia's entry on the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo) with accuracy and fluency. Discuss any unfamiliar words from the passage and what strategies you used to understand them.
The military have admitted that over 9,000 of those kidnapped are still unaccounted for, but the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
say that the number is closer to 30,000. The numbers are hard to determine due to the secrecy surrounding the abductions.
Three of the founders of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have also "disappeared". After the falt of the military regime, a
civilian government commission put the number of disappeared at close to 11,000.

The military have admitted that over 9,000 of those kidnapped are still unaccounted for, but the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Explanation:

Because The numbers are hard to determine due to the secrecy surrounding the abductions.

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the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

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