LEADER 04975nam 22006253 450 001 9911008955003321 005 20230618050347.0 010 $a9781640125803 010 $a1640125809 010 $a9781640125810 010 $a1640125817 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30585644 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30585644 035 $a(OCoLC)1381709861 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_103722 035 $a(CKB)26845903900041 035 $a(Perlego)4521817 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926845903900041 100 $a20230608d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Disappeared $eRemnants of a Dirty War 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLincoln :$cPotomac Books, Incorporated,$d2023. 210 4$dİ2023. 215 $a1 online resource (353 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Ferguson, Sam The Disappeared Lincoln : Potomac Books, Incorporated,c2023 9781640121522 327 $aA 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. 330 $a"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? "--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"The Disappeared: Remnants of a Dirty War tells the remarkable saga of one country's attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using one of the most recent war crime trials as his lens, Sam Ferguson relates how and why Argentina decided to prosecute its aging Dirty Warriors a generation after the collapse of its last corrupt military regime"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aDisappeared persons$zArgentina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTrials (Crimes against humanity)$zArgentina 606 $aWar crime trials$zArgentina 606 $aHISTORY / Latin America / South America$2bisacsh 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes$2bisacsh 607 $aArgentina$xHistory$yDirty War, 1976-1983$xAtrocities 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDisappeared persons$xHistory 615 0$aTrials (Crimes against humanity) 615 0$aWar crime trials 615 7$aHISTORY / Latin America / South America 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes 676 $a323.490982 686 $aHIS033000$aPOL061000$2bisacsh 700 $aFerguson$b Sam$01826698 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008955003321 996 $aThe Disappeared$94394719 997 $aUNINA