Nunca Mas: The Report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared
By Argentine National Commission on Disappeared.
Description
During the 1970's, Argentina was torn by terror from both the extreme right and the far left. With the coming to power in 1976 of the first of three military juntas, however, the ruling armed forces responded to the terrorists' cries with a terrorism far worse than that they were combating. The security forces of the military kidnapped, tortured, and assassinated thousands of human beings with impunity. Their victims came to be called desparecidos, "the disappeared". -- One of Raul Alfonsin's first acts upon assuming the presidency of Argentina's new civilian g...
ISBN(s)
0374223505, 9780374223502
