Human Rights and Genocide

Obama Declassification Holds Promise of Uncovering New Evidence on Argentina's Dirty War

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Washington, March 23, 2016 – Reinforcing the Obama administration’s planned “comprehensive effort to declassify” historical records on Argentina’s dirty war, the National Security Archive today posted examples of the kinds of materials in U.S. government files that would most likely enhance public understanding of that troubled period in Latin American history. The posted documents, relating not just to regional developments but to official U.S.

Obama Brings 'Declassified Diplomacy' To Argentina

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Washington, March 18, 2016 – As President Obama prepares to go to Argentina next week on the 40^th anniversary of the military coup, the National Security Archive hailed his decision to declassify hundreds of still secret CIA and Defense Department records on the repression during the military dictatorship.

Declassified Documents on Darfur Genocide Reveal Situation Nearly Identical to Current Atrocities

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Road to Dayton paved with genocide

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The Srebrenica Conference

International Decision-Making in the Age of Genocide: Srebrenica 1993-1995
"Critical Oral History" Conference Marks 20th Anniversary of Srebrenica Massacre.

Lessons from Srebrenica: 20 Years Later
Hague Institute, July 2, 2015

Video: Srebrenica 20 Years Later
Hague Institute, June30, 2015

International Conference Examines Failure to Prevent Genocide in Srebrenica
United States Holocaust Museum, June 29, 2015

Results from Rwanda Conference

In the News

Prelude to Iguala: "Heavy-handed police tactics" used against Ayotzinapa students in 2011

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Washington, DC, October 7, 2015 - U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne said that “evidence of heavy-handed police tactics” was “strong and disconcerting” after a 2011 clash with student protestors from Ayotzinapa normal school left two youths and a gas station employee dead and several others wounded, according to a declassified cable from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.

Los Quemados: Chile’s Pinochet Covered up Human Rights Atrocity

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Washington D.C., July 31, 2015 – General Augusto Pinochet refused to accept a police report identifying his own military as responsible for burning two teenage protesters alive in July 1986, according to declassified U.S. documents posted today by the National Security Archive. Pinochet’s action initiated a high-level cover-up of the infamous human rights atrocity known as the case of “Los Quemados”—the burned ones—which killed 19-year old Rodrigo Rojas de Negri and severely disfigured 18-year old Carmen Gloria Quintana.

Srebrenica Conference Documents Detail Path to Genocide from 1993 to 1995

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IN THE NEWS

International Decision-Making in the Age of Genocide: Srebrenica 1993-1995
"Critical Oral History" Conference Marks 20th Anniversary of Srebrenica Massacre.

Declassified U.N. Cables Reveal Turning Point in Rwanda Crisis of 1994
Mark Landler, The New York Times, June 3, 2014

Genocide Under Our Watch
By Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy, April 16, 2015

Exclusive: Rwanda Revisited
By Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy, April 5, 2015

Results from Rwanda Conference

Previous Postings

"Critical Oral History" Conference Marks 20th Anniversary of Srebrenica Massacre in July 1995

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June 28, 2015 The Hague, The Netherlands Leading decision-makers from more than a dozen countries will gather in The Hague from June 29 to July 1 to consider the failure of the international community to prevent the fall of the United Nations “safe area” of Srebrenica in July 1995, which resulted in the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.

US: Mexico Mass Graves Raise "Alarming Questions" about Government "Complicity" in September 2014 Cartel Killings

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Operation Condor: National Security Archive Presents Trove of Declassified Documentation in Historic Trial in Argentina

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In the News

La evolución del Cóndor

Director del prestigioso Proyecto Documentación Cono Sur del Archivo de Seguridad Nacional en Washington, habló en el juicio en Buenos Aires.
Por Alejandra Dandan, Pagina 12, May 3, 2015

Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia
Embassy of Argentina, March 24, 2015

Carlos Osorio, compartió su experiencia
Pagina 12 , March 24, 2015