TRANSITIONAL TRUTH AND JUSTICE FOLLOWING ARGENTINA’S “DIRTY WAR” (1976-83)

Willie Hiatt via ZOOM

A “dirty war” is an internal conflict in which states use extrajudicial violence and other extreme measures to stop leftist or communist “subversion.” Following the military coup in March 1976, the Argentine junta committed widespread human rights violations against what it perceived as threats to Western, Christian civilization. Unofficial estimates claim that nearly 30,000 were killed or disappeared. After a return to constitutional rule in 1983, a truth commission was convened to establish the causes and consequences of the violence and give voice to the victims. This lecture examines the dirty war and the role the truth commission report, Nunca más (Never Again) played in Argentina’s efforts toward national healing and reconciliation.

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