Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America

Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Published
20 December 2016
Pages
218
ISBN
9781498533263

Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes as well as protecting and sheltering targeted victims-including the dead-during the Cold War state violence in Latin America. In light of newly unearthed archival evidence, testimonial memories, and the continued mobilization of human rights groups to preserve Cold War memory, this timely book moves beyond the victim-perpetrator dichotomy and its discursive studies to focus on those whose moral courage and righteous acts were beacons of hope in the midst of extreme violence. Remembering Latin American righteousness, a term used in Holocaust literature, is important in recognizing that those who resisted human rights violations and protected victims yesterday are those who often keep the collective memory of that past alive today.

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