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The Disappeared: Remnants of a Dirty War de Sam Ferguson

The Disappeared: Remnants of a Dirty War

Autor Sam Ferguson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iul 2023

Subliniem faptul că The Disappeared aduce o perspectivă proaspătă și riguroasă asupra proceselor pentru crime împotriva umanității din Argentina, concentrându-se pe eforturile recente de tragere la răspundere a vinovaților, la decenii după încheierea „Războiului Murdar”. Spre deosebire de literatura care s-a axat strict pe perioada dictaturii (1976-1983), Sam Ferguson analizează mecanismele juridice prin care o democrație modernă încearcă să repare traumele unui trecut atroce. Remarcăm modul în care autorul folosește procesul de 22 de luni al ofițerilor de la Școala de Mecanică Navală (ESMA) ca lentilă pentru a explora limitele legii în fața răului sistemic.

Această lucrare acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum A Lexicon of Terror de Marguerite Feitlowitz, însă acolo unde Feitlowitz se concentrează pe limbajul și psihologia terorii de stat, Ferguson adoptă o abordare mai pragmatică și juridică, axată pe dosarele de tribunal și pe invalidarea legilor amnistiei. De asemenea, dacă The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War oferă un context larg al instituției religioase, Ferguson aduce detalii specifice și inedite prin consultarea transcrierilor secrete ale mărturiei lui Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Papa Francisc), oferind o imagine nuanțată a rolului Bisericii Catolice.

Structura cărții urmărește o progresie logică, de la contextul istoric al „Enigmei Argentiniene” la detaliile tehnice ale acuzării și brutalitatea specifică de la ESMA. Capitolele dedicate figurilor emblematice precum Rodolfo Walsh sau dispariției preoților iezuiți ancorează dezbaterea teoretică în destine umane concrete. Este o analiză critică a justiției tranzitorii, care pune sub semnul întrebării dacă instanțele civile pot oferi vreodată o reparație morală completă pentru victimele „desaparecidos”.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781640121522
ISBN-10: 1640121528
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 12 photographs, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Potomac Books Inc
Colecția Potomac Books
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria politică, drepturile omului și justiția internațională. The Disappeared oferă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care Argentina a devenit un laborator global pentru justiția tranzitorie. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă documentată asupra modului în care probele juridice se transformă în memorie colectivă, totul printr-o scriere alertă care îmbină rigoarea juridică cu investigația jurnalistică de cel mai înalt nivel.

Despre autor

Sam Ferguson este un cercetător și scriitor preocupat de intersecția dintre drept și drepturile omului. Deși bibliografia sa cuprinde și incursiuni în zona ficțiunii, precum A Land of Glass and Fire sau Aikur's War, unde explorează teme legate de onoare militară și conflicte etice sub formă alegorică, în The Disappeared el își folosește expertiza pentru a documenta unul dintre cele mai complexe procese din istoria Americii Latine. Munca sa se distinge prin accesul la surse primare și prin capacitatea de a sintetiza proceduri legale complexe în narațiuni accesibile publicului larg.

Descriere scurtă

The Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to right the wrongs of an unspeakably dark past. Using a recent human rights trial as his lens, Sam Ferguson addresses two central questions of our age: How is mass atrocity possible, and What should be done in its wake?

From 1976 to 1983 thousands of people were the victims of state terrorism during Argentina’s so-called Dirty War. Ferguson recounts a twenty-two-month trial of the most notorious perpetrators of this atrocity, who ran a secret prison from the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires. The navy executed as many as five thousand political “subversives,” most of whom were sedated and thrown alive out of airplanes into the South Atlantic. The victims of these secret death flights and others who went missing during the regime are known as los desaparecidos—“the disappeared.”

Ferguson explores Argentina’s novel response to mass atrocity: the country’s remarkable and controversial decisions in 2003 to repeal a series of amnesty laws passed in the 1980s and to prosecute anew the perpetrators of the Dirty War a generation after the collapse of the country's last dictatorship. As of 2022 more than one thousand aging military officers have been indicted for their involvement in the Dirty War and hundreds of trials have commenced in the country’s civilian courts. Among the many facets of the book, Ferguson takes an in-depth look at allegations that Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, was involved in the disappearance of two Jesuit priests under his supervision in 1976. Bergoglio was called to testify in a closed-chambers session. Ferguson reviewed those secret proceedings and uses them as a springboard to explore the Argentine Catholic Church and its broader role in the Dirty War.

The lingering but acute trauma of the victims who testified at the trial underscores the moral urgency of accountability. When a state strips its citizens of all their rights, the only response that approximates reparation is to restore the rule of law and punish the perpetrators. Yet the trial also revealed the limits of using criminal law to respond to mass atrocity. Justice demands a laser-like focus on evidence relevant to a crime, but atrocity begs for social understanding. Can the law ever bring full justice?
 

Notă biografică

Sam Ferguson is an attorney in Berkeley, California and the principal of Ferguson Law PC. He previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge William Fletcher on the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. He was a visiting fellow at Yale Law School’s Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights, as well as a Fulbright fellow in Argentina. His articles on Argentina’s Dirty War have appeared in The New Republic, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Boston Review.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
One: A Beginning of Sorts
Two: The Argentine Enigma
Three: The Prosecution's Case
Four: Opening Silence
Five: Trials Before the Trial
Six: The Brutality of the ESMA
Seven: Rodolfo Walsh
Eight: The Santa Cruz Raid
Nine: Between Memory, Truth and Justice
Ten: The Jesuits
Eleven: Closing Arguments and Verdict
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

“With the eye of a novelist and the brilliance of a lawyer, Sam Ferguson has given us a gripping and world-illuminating account of Argentina’s relentless and almost heroic attempt to confront the horrors of its past.”—Owen Fiss, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale Law School

“Sam Ferguson’s book tells the remarkable saga of this twenty-two-month trial and the larger story of how and why Argentina is prosecuting its aging Dirty Warriors. It wrestles with the deepest questions of whether law can do justice for the past. This is an important and timely book that should be read by all of those who are interested in fostering international human rights and promoting democracy—and a reminder that societies never really turn the page on the past.”—Tina Rosenberg, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Haunted: Facing Europe’s Ghosts after Communism

“In The Disappeared Sam Ferguson asks an urgent moral question: what does justice look like in the aftermath of atrocity? If that question remains an abstraction in too many places around the world, Ferguson addresses it concretely—and unforgettably—in this riveting new account. . . . In Ferguson’s hands you’ll feel as if you, too, are sitting in the repurposed movie theater with the faded pink drapes in 2009, watching an important political spectacle commence. But The Disappeared also offers a clear-eyed assessment of the limits of the law and the kinds of collective heartbreak it is not equipped to heal.”—Sarah Stillman, staff writer for the New Yorker

“The true birth of the contemporary human rights movement can be traced not to Nuremberg or even to Auschwitz but to the dark recesses of the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires. . . . [The Disappeared] is a gripping narrative; Sam Ferguson has written a fascinating, painstaking, and necessary book. Anyone who cares about human rights—or indeed the human condition—must read it.”—Mark Danner, author of The Massacre at El Mozote

“Can there ever be justice for Latin America’s disappeared? This remarkable book analyzes the question through the prism of Argentina’s contemporary crimes against humanity trials for atrocities committed during its so-called ‘Dirty War’ of the 1970s and the possibility of delayed justice. As a lawyer and observer, Ferguson presents a keen understanding in this nuanced and highly readable account. . . . Through [Ferguson’s] interviews, comprehensive research, and first-hand observations, a lucid narrative emerges here: Argentina has imagined and created a better future through the trials by opening up its dark past. Argentina has achieved a level of self-reflection and judgment that tragically remains largely exceptional among nations. Given the rise of authoritarianism around the world, this is hugely necessary and riveting reading for students, academics, and political analysts alike.”—Ruti G. Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School and author of Globalizing Transitional Justice