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Women of the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared demonstrate in front of La Moneda Palace during the Pinochet military regime.. An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the intent of placing the ...
Enforced disappearance (5 C, 43 P) O. Lost objects (6 C, 18 P) P. ... Bennington Triangle; Bermuda Triangle; C. Elizabeth Canning; Capitol Hill mystery soda machine;
An Australian scientist says he has figured out the leading cause of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances. Here's the answer.
Ireland's Vanishing Triangle [1] [2] [3] is a term commonly used in the Irish media when referring to a number of high-profile disappearances of Irish women from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Several other women were also murdered within the triangle and their cases remain unsolved as well. [ 4 ]
The interim government said this week the commission will "investigate enforced disappearances that occurred" since Jan. 1, 2010 "allegedly involving members of the police" and arms of the ...
Velásquez Rodríguez v. Honduras is a landmark case that was decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in 1988. [1] It is a seminal case in the realm of international human rights law that is known for its analysis of state responsibility for enforced disappearances. [2]
Disappeared detainees in Chile (Desaparecidos), refers to the victims of enforced disappearances perpetrated by the Chilean military during the political repression following the 1973 coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet. The term "disappeared detainees" is also used in other Latin American countries.
The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance is an international human rights instrument of the U.N. intended to prevent forced disappearance, which ...