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Relatives of those who disappeared under the Pinochet regime demand information about their loved ones in Santiago, Chile, in 2000. Frans Lemmens/Alamy

September 10, 2023

How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, 50 years on from Chile’s US‑backed coup

Brad Evans, University of Bath

State-sponsored disappearance plays into the most primal of human fears – to vanish without a trace. The modern era started with Chile’s US-backed coup on September 11 1973

A forensic anthropologist analyses exhumed bones removed from a mass grave in one of Guatemala City’s largest cemeteries, La Verbena, in 2011. Rodrigo Abd/AP

April 16, 2023

Reading the bones of the dead: the painstaking, painful process of returning genocide victims to their families

Olivera Simic, Griffith University

Forensic anthropologist Alexa Hagerty’s work faced her with the brutality of the genocides in Guatemala and in Argentina’s “Dirty War” – and with the bureaucratic violence of state institutions.

During the Russian occupation of Luhansk Oblast, 15 kids were allegedly taken from this rehabilitation center and moved to Russia. Wojciech Grzedzinski/The Washington Post via Getty Images

November 22, 2022

4 plays that dramatize the kidnapping of children during wars

Magda Romanska, Emerson College

These wartime abductions aren’t specific to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Throughout history, they’ve inflicted trauma on society’s most vulnerable – making them a rich subject matter for the stage.

In post-dictatorship Argentina, citizens, like the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, have been the guardians of justice. Argentine Ministry of Culture/flickr

May 26, 2017

In Argentina, the Supreme Court spurs national outrage with leniency for a ‘Dirty War’ criminal

Rut Diamint, Torcuato di Tella University and Laura Tedesco, Saint Louis University – Madrid

Argentineans are determined to not forgive or forget the criminals who killed or disappeared more than 30,000 people.

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