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Memorial at the former detention center of Quinta de Mendez []. The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for its period of state terrorism [12] [10] [13] in Argentina [14] [15] from 1974 to 1983.
CONADEP was created by Raúl Alfonsín who was the candidate for the Unión Cívica Radical (Radical Civic Union) party and took office on December 10, 1983.He emphasized that to prosecute the guilty parties responsible for the disappearances that three categories of people would have to be distinguished: those who planned and issued the orders, those who acted beyond the orders and those who ...
The plane was flown back to Argentina [16] and is now on display at the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos in Buenos Aires. [ 17 ] [ 20 ] A five-year trial (nicknamed the " ESMA mega-trial" or "Death Flights trial") of 54 former Argentine officials accused of running death flights and other crimes against humanity ( lesa humanidad ) heard 830 ...
Forty-seven years ago, before her hair turned white and she had no need of a wheelchair to march around Argentina’s most iconic square, Nora Cortiñas made a promise to her son who disappeared ...
Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza De Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina, by Rita Arditti (1999). A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, by Marguerite Feitlowitz (1998) "Las cenizas de Azucena, junto a la Pirámide", Página/12, 9 December 2005 (in Spanish).
In Peru, out of 20,000 disappeared people, only 3,200 remains have been found. In Colombia , five decades of war left a staggering death toll and more than 124,000 people missing. Paraguay’s dictatorship left a smaller number of disappeared (500 people), but only 15 bodies have been recovered.
Enforced disappearances in Argentina (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Missing person cases in Argentina" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
If a baby was taken from their parents four decades ago during Argentina's military dictatorship, what would that person look like today? Argentine publicist Santiago Barros has been trying to ...