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Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy - Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005 (Paperback)
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Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy - Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005 (Paperback)
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Universal human rights standards were adopted in 1948, but in the
1970s and 1980s, violent dictatorships in Argentina and Chile
flagrantly defied the new protocols. Chilean general Augusto
Pinochet and the Argentine military employed state terrorism in
their quest to eradicate Marxism and other forms of "subversion."
Pinochet constructed an iron shield of impunity for himself and the
military in Chile, while in Argentina, military pressure resulted
in laws preventing prosecution for past human rights violations.
When democracy was reestablished in both countries by 1990, justice
for crimes against humanity seemed beyond reach. Thomas C. Wright
examines how persistent advocacy by domestic and international
human rights groups, evolving legal environments, unanticipated
events that impacted public opinion, and eventual changes in
military leadership led to a situation unique in the world-the
stripping of impunity not only from a select number of commanders
of the repression but from all those involved in state terrorism in
Chile and Argentina. This has resulted in trials conducted by
national courts, without United Nations or executive branch
direction, in which hundreds of former repressors have been
convicted and many more are indicted or undergoing trial. Impunity,
Human Rights, and Democracy draws on extensive research, including
interviews, to trace the erosion and collapse of the former
repressors' impunity-a triumph for human rights advocates that has
begun to inspire authorities in other Latin American countries,
including Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, and Guatemala, to investigate past
human rights violations and prosecute their perpetrators.
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