The truth about desaparecidos: missing bodies, concealed crimes

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO
Author/s Arianna Jacqmin
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/2
Language Italian Pages 22 P. 131-152 File size 276 KB
DOI 10.3280/SD2017-002006
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The essay studies the role of truth and the right to truth during the Argentinian transition. It aims at clarifying the reasons why the issue of truth became so debated between victims and juridical and political institutions, since the Eighties. After discussing the historical context of dictatorship and of forced disappearances, the essay focuses on the practices to deal with the death of one’s own relative from a socio-anthropological, psychological and juridical point of view. The main factors that emerge in relation to truth in Argentina are the following: the ambiguous post-dictatorship policy and the specificity of the crime of forced disappearance.

Keywords: Desaparecidos - Right to truth - Forced disappearances - Victims - Transitional justice

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Arianna Jacqmin, La verità sui desaparecidos: salme disperse e reati insabbiati in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO " 2/2017, pp 131-152, DOI: 10.3280/SD2017-002006