Archives of Terror

Operation Condor
Background histories Argentina (1976 coup d'état) Bolivia Brazil (1960s) Chile (1973 coup d'état) Paraguay Peru Uruguay
Events Dirty War National Reorganization Process Operation Colombo Operation Charly Night of the Pencils Operativo Independencia Ezeiza massacre Margarita Belén massacre Death flights Desaparecidos
Government leaders Jorge Anaya Hugo Banzer Basilio Lami Dozo João Figueiredo Leopoldo Galtieri Augusto Pinochet Alfredo Stroessner Jorge Rafael Videla
Targeted militias Montoneros Tupamaros People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR)
Principal operatives Alfredo Astiz Orlando Bosch Hugo Campos Hermida Manuel Contreras Stefano Delle Chiaie José López Rega Virgilio Paz Romero Luis Posada Carriles Paul Schäfer Michael Townley
Organizations responsible Central Intelligence Agency Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional Caravan of Death Batallón de Inteligencia 601 Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations Serviço Nacional de Informações Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
Locations Esmeralda Estadio Nacional de Chile Villa Grimaldi Colonia Dignidad Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics
Laws Full stop law Due obedience law
Archives and reports Archives of Terror Rettig Report Valech Report National Security Archive
Reactions National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons Trial of the Juntas Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
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The Archives of Terror (

The Truth and Justice Commission, established by the Paraguayan government in 2003, was able to compile from these archives and three other documentary sources, a list of 9,923 individuals who suffered 14,338 human rights violations, including detentions, tortures, executions, disappearances, and exiles. The commission's work also enabled the identification of an additional 10,167 victims omitted by the archives.[3]

Overview

Fernández was looking for files on a former prisoner. Instead, he found archives describing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the security services of Argentina,

.

Also revealed was a letter written by

was made using those archives. Almada, himself a victim of Condor, was twice interviewed by Baltasar Garzón.

"[The documents] are a mountain of ignominy, of lies, which Stroessner [Paraguay's dictator until 1989] used for 40 years to blackmail the Paraguayan people," states Almada.^[2] He wants the UNESCO to list the "terror archives" as an international cultural site, as this would greatly facilitate access to funding to preserve and protect the documents.

In May 2000, a

, one element of a program aimed at safeguarding and promoting the documentary heritage of humanity to ensure that records are preserved and available for consultation.

See also

• List of archives in Paraguay

Notes

Bibliography

• Martín Almada, Paraguay: The Forgotten Prison, the Exiled Country

External links

• UNESCO "Democracy in the light of dictatorship" by Alain Touraine, article for the UNESCO.
• www.pittstate.edu
• Article in Spanish by Martín Almada
• "In Search of Truth and Justice: Coordination Board for Assistance to the Commission of Truth and Justice". Voces: Boletin Informativo de la CODEHUPY. 4(1) January–March 2004. Translated by D. Schenck-Hamlin and N. Ossar. Consequences of the discovery of the archives of terror.