1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00027011

Autore

CHANDRA, Rai Govind

Titolo

Indian Symbolism : Symbols as Sources of Our Customs and Beliefs / Rai Govind Chandra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, : Munshiram Manoharlal, 1996 xii, 152 p., : ill. ; 24 cm

ISBN

81-215-0081-8

Classificazione

SI IX I

Soggetti

RELIGIONI INDIANE - SIMBOLISMO

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911008955003321

Autore

Ferguson Sam

Titolo

The Disappeared : Remnants of a Dirty War

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : Potomac Books, Incorporated, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781640125803

1640125809

9781640125810

1640125817

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 pages)

Classificazione

HIS033000POL061000

Disciplina

323.490982

Soggetti

Disappeared persons - Argentina - History - 20th century

Trials (Crimes against humanity) - Argentina

War crime trials - Argentina

HISTORY / Latin America / South America

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes

Electronic books.

Argentina History Dirty War, 1976-1983 Atrocities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

A beginning of sorts -- The Argentine enigma -- The prosecution's case -- Opening silence -- Trials before the trial -- The brutality of the ESMA -- Rodolfo Walsh -- The Santa Cruz raid -- Between memory, truth and justice -- The Jesuits -- Closing arguments and verdict.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina's attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using a recent human rights trial as his lens, Sam Ferguson addresses two central questions of our age: How is mass atrocity possible, and What should be done in its wake? From 1976 to 1983 thousands of people were the victims of state terrorism during Argentina's so-called Dirty War. Ferguson recounts a twenty-two-month trial of the most notorious perpetrators of this atrocity, who ran a secret prison from the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires. The navy executed as many as five thousand political "subversives," most of whom were sedated and thrown alive out of airplanes into the South Atlantic. The victims of these secret death flights and others who went missing during the regime are known as los desaparecidos-"the disappeared." Ferguson explores Argentina's novel response to mass atrocity: the country's remarkable and controversial decisions in 2003 to repeal a series of amnesty laws passed in the 1980s and to prosecute anew the perpetrators of the Dirty War a generation after the collapse of the country's last dictatorship. As of 2022 more than one thousand aging military officers have been indicted for their involvement in the Dirty War and hundreds of trials have commenced in the country's civilian courts. Among the many facets of the book, Ferguson takes an in-depth look at allegations that Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, was involved in the disappearance of two Jesuit priests under his supervision in 1976. Bergoglio was called to testify in a closed-chambers session. Ferguson reviewed those secret proceedings and uses them as a springboard to explore the Argentine Catholic Church and its broader role in the Dirty War. The lingering but acute trauma of the victims who testified at the trial underscores the moral urgency of accountability. When a state strips its citizens of all their rights, the only response that approximates reparation is to restore the rule of law and punish the perpetrators. Yet the trial also revealed the limits of using criminal law to respond to mass atrocity. Justice demands a laser-like focus on evidence relevant to a crime, but atrocity begs for social understanding. Can the law ever bring full justice? "--

"The Disappeared: Remnants of a Dirty War tells the remarkable saga of one country's attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using one of the most recent war crime trials as his lens, Sam Ferguson relates how and why Argentina decided to prosecute its aging Dirty Warriors a generation after the collapse of its last corrupt military regime"--