Human Rights and Genocide
Obama Declassification Holds Promise of Uncovering New Evidence on Argentina's Dirty War
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
Washington, March 18, 2016 – As President Obama prepares to go to Argentina next week on the 40th 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.
Road to Dayton paved with genocide
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
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
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
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
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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