Dirty War

Author : Marguerite Feitlowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0199840377

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A Lexicon of Terror by Marguerite Feitlowitz Pdf

"We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon of Terror, Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare of sadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 civilians from 1976 to 1983 and whose leaders were recently issued warrants by a Spanish court for the crime of genocide. Feitlowitz explores the perversion of language under state terrorism, both as it's used to conceal and confuse ("The Parliament must be disbanded to rejuvenate democracy") and to domesticate torture and murder. Thus, citizens kidnapped and held in secret concentration camps were "disappeared"; torture was referred to as "intensive therapy"; prisoners thrown alive from airplanes over the ocean were called "fish food." Based on six years of research and moving interviews with peasants, intellectuals, activists, and bystanders, A Lexicon of Terror examines the full impact of this catastrophic period from its inception to the present, in which former torturers, having been pardoned and released from prison, live side by side with those they tortured. Passionately written and impossible to put down, Feitlowitz shows us both the horror of the war and the heroism of those who resisted and survived--their courage, their endurance, their eloquent refusal to be dehumanized in the face of torments even Dante could not have imagined.

Author : Анна Политковская
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056226387

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A Dirty War by Анна Политковская Pdf

The Chechen War was supposed to be over in 1996 after the first Yeltsin campaign, but in the summer of 1999, the new Putin government decided, in their own words, to 'do the job properly'. Before all the bodies of those who had died in the first campaign had been located or identified, many more thousands would be slaughtered in another round of fighting. The first account to be written by a Russian woman, A Dirty War is an edgy and intense study of a conflict that shows no sign of being resolved. Exasperated by the Russian government's attempt to manipulate media coverage of the war, journalist Anna Politkovskaya undertook to go to Chechnya, to make regular reports and keep events in the public eye. In a series of despatches from July 1999 to January 2001 she vividly describes the atrocities and abuses of war, whether it be the corruption endemic in post-Communist Russia, in particular the government and the military, or the spurious arguments and abominable behaviour of the Chechen authorities. In these courageous reports, Politkovskaya excoriates male stupidity and brutality on both sides of the conflict and interviews the civilians whose homes and communities have been laid waste, leaving them nowhere to live, and nothing and no one to believe in.

Author : David Cox
Publisher : EveningPostBooks
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 0981873502

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Dirty Secrets, Dirty War by David Cox Pdf

From 1976-1983, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared in Argentina. They were victims of the "Dirty War" - a brutal campaign designed by the government to root out possible subversives. Robert J. Cox, editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, did what few others were willing to do - he told the truth about what was happening every day in his newspaper. He challenged those in power - asking questions and demanding answers.

Author : Diana Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0822318687

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Disappearing Acts by Diana Taylor Pdf

Taylor uses performance theory to explore how public spectacle both builds and dismantles a sense of national and gender identity. Here, nation is understood as a product of communal "imaginings" that are rehearsed, written and staged - and spectacle is the desiring machine at work in those imaginings. Taylor argue that the founding scenario of Argentineness stages the struggle for national identity as a battle between men - fought on, over, and through the feminine body of the Motherland. She shows how the military's representations of itself as the model of national authenticity established the parameters of the conflict in the 70s and 80s, feminized the enemy, and positioned the public - limiting its ability to respond.

Author : Martin Dillon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781407074801

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The Dirty War by Martin Dillon Pdf

___________ 'This excellent book demands the attention of anyone concerned about civil liberties in the United Kingdom' Guardian 1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland. Rioting in Derry's Bogside led to the deployment of British troops and a shortlived, uneasy truce. The British army soon found itself engaged in an undercover war against the Provisional IRA, which was to last for more than twenty years. In this enthralling and controversial book, Martin Dillon, author of the bestselling The Shankill Butchers, examines the roles played by the Provisional IRA, the State forces, the Irish Government and the British Army during this troubled period. He unravels the mystery of war in which informers, agents and double agents operate, revealing disturbing facts about the way in which the terrorists and the Intelligence Agencies target, undermine and penetrate each other's ranks. The Dirty War is investigative reporting at its very best, containing startling disclosures and throwing new light on previously inexplicable events.

Author : Gustavo Morello
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190234270

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The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War by Gustavo Morello Pdf

Drawing on interviews with victims of forced disappearance, documents from the state and the Church, as well as field work and participant observation, The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War explores how the Argentine government deployed the legitimating discourse of Catholicism to justify terrorism in the case of La Salette missionaries. It examines how the official Catholic hierarchy rationalized their silence, and how the victims understood their Catholic faith in such a context --

Author : Lansana Gberie
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0253218551

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A Dirty War in West Africa by Lansana Gberie Pdf

Since 1991, this West African nation has been brought to its knees by a series of coups, violent conflicts, and finally, outright war. The war has ended today, but it is clear that things are hardly settled. Focusing on the group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), journalist Lansana Gberie exposes the corruption and appalling use of rape and mutilation as tactics to overthrow the former government. Gberie looks closely at the rise of the RUF and its ruthless leader, Foday Sankoh, as he seeks to understand the personalities and parties involved in the war.

Author : James P. Brennan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520970076

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Argentina's Missing Bones by James P. Brennan Pdf

Argentina’s Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976–83 military dictatorship and Argentina’s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Córdoba, Argentina’s second largest city. A site of thunderous working-class and student protest prior to the dictatorship, it later became a place where state terrorism was particularly cruel. Considering the legacy of this violent period, James P. Brennan examines the role of the state in constructing a public memory of the violence and in holding those responsible accountable through the most extensive trials for crimes against humanity to take place anywhere in Latin America.

Author : Federico Finchelstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199396504

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The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War by Federico Finchelstein Pdf

Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal dictatorships in the 1970s and early 1980s. How and why did all of these regimes emerge in a country that was "born liberal"? Why did these authoritarian traits first emerge in Argentina under the shadow of fascism? In this book, Federico Finchelstein tells the history of modern Argentina as seen from the perspective of political violence and ideology. He focuses on the theory and practice of the fascist idea in Argentine political culture throughout the twentieth century, analyzing the connections between fascist theory and the Holocaust, antisemitism, and the military junta's practices of torture and state violence, with its networks of concentration camps and extermination. The book demonstrates how the state's war against its citizens was rooted in fascist ideology, explaining the Argentine variant of fascism, formed by nacionalistas, and its links with European fascism and Catholicism. It particularly emphasizes the genocidal dimensions of the persecution of Argentine Jewish victims. The destruction of the rule of law and military state terror during the Dirty War, Finchelstein shows, was the product of many political and ideological reformulations and personifications of fascism. The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War provides a genealogy of state-sanctioned terror, revealing fascism as central to Argentina's political culture and its violent twentieth century.

Author : Paddy Woodworth
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1859182763

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Dirty War, Clean Hands by Paddy Woodworth Pdf

The investigations continue and Garzon is still attempting to establish the full extent of the relationship between the former Spanish Government and the GAL's death squads."--Jacket.

Author : Gloria Lisé
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558616479

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Departing at Dawn by Gloria Lisé Pdf

“[A] quiet, powerful novel” of a young woman caught in the chaos of Argentina in the mid-1970s, when speaking against the government could mean death (Publishers Weekly). March 23, 1976. Berta watches horrified as her lover, a union organizer named Atilio, is thrown from a window to his death by soldiers. The next day, Colonel Jorge Rafael Videla stages a coup d’état and a military dictatorship takes control of Argentina. And even though she was never a part of Atilio’s union efforts, Berta is on a list to be “disappeared.” Fleeing to relatives in the countryside, she becomes part of the family she knows only from old photographs: Aunt Avelina, who blasts music from an old record player; Uncle Nepomuceno, who watches slugs slither in the garden every afternoon; and Uncle Javier, who sits in his tiny grocery store day and night. But soon enough, Berta realizes she must run even further to save her life—and those she has come to love. With a prose that is light yet penetrating, Gloria Lisé has written “a beautifully simple, poetic story of solidarity and love, with memorable characters painted in the tender strokes of a watercolor” (Luisa Valenzuela, author of Black Novel with Argentines).

Author : Donald C. Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 0292776861

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Argentina's Dirty War by Donald C. Hodges Pdf

Author : Alberto Ulloa Bornemann
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592134246

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Surviving Mexico's Dirty War by Alberto Ulloa Bornemann Pdf

A riveting memoir of Mexico's ''dirty wars''

Author : Martin Edwin Andersen
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029297192

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Dossier Secreto by Martin Edwin Andersen Pdf

Author : Iain Guest
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 0812213130

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Behind the Disappearances by Iain Guest Pdf

Drawing on confidential Argentinian documents and memoranda, Behind the Disappearances documents a seven-year diplomatic war by one of the twentieth century's most brutal regimes. It relates how, starting in 1976, Argentina's military government tried to cripple the UN's human rights machinery in an effort to prevent international condemnation of its policy of disappearances. Initially this attempt succeeded, but in 1980—with encouragement from the Carter administration—UN officials regained the initiative and created a special working group on disappearances that rejuvenated the UN's efforts. This progress was abruptly halted in 1981 when the Reagan administration sided with the Argentinian regime. The result, claims the author, not only undercut the UN's actions against disappearances but also weakened its chances of playing a positive role in aiding Latin America's transition from dictatorship to democracy.