Uruguay Nunca Mas: Human Rights Violations, 1972-1985
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (534 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0877229538 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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NUNCA MAS Margaux This book was extremely accurate and informative. The translation is great. Buyer beware - the information is not sugar-coated. It is very graphic at times, but must be to give an accurate description of events. The pictures are shocking and the list of the made
Author Servicio Paz y Justicia Uruguay is a team of Lawyers, doctors, and human rights specialists dedicated to the preservation of human rights in Uruguay. Based on hundreds of interviews, a survey of ex-prisoners, and published testimonials, "Uruguay Nunca Mas" documents the atrocities that were committed during the military dictatorship in Uruguay from 1973 to 1985. Detailing the means by which civil liberties were abrogated by the repressive regime, this report examines how the Doctrine of National Security affected daily life in a country that had been hailed as 'the Switzerland of America'. The organization Servicio Paz y Justicia-Uruguay (SERPAJ) traces the various stages that Uruguay's military government passed through in its twelve years in power, noting the progressive distortion of the legislative judicial, and executive branches. Unlike the bloody, highly publicized events in Chile and Argentina, the hushed repression in Uruguay was carried out with unprecedented sophistication. Describing some twenty forms of torture, disappearances, and other mechanisms of repression, "Uruguay Nunca Mas" documents how the population at large was subjec
Photos not seen by PW. (His own book, A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers , is in part a chronicle of the making of this report.) It teaches us about the breakdown of democracy in Uruguay, the practice of state terrorism and the scars such depredations left on individuals and on the country. Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Unlike in Argentina or Brazil, in Uruguay neither the government nor the church conducted this investigation; it was the work of citizens who combined personal testimony and a knowledge of social science, as Lawrence Wechsler notes in his perce