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Part
I
The Repression
Nunca Más
(Never Again) - Report of Conadep
- 1984
B.
Abduction
There
are some 600 instances of abductions recorded in the
Commission’s files which are said to have taken place prior to
the 24 March 1976 coup. After that date the number of people who
were illegally deprived of their liberty throughout Argentina
rises to the tens of thousands. Eight thousand, nine hundred and
sixty of them have not reappeared to this day.
The method
used was tested in the ’Independencia’
operation In Tucumán before the military government took
power. It differs from the methods used in other countries
because it was carried out in total secrecy, with regard to a
person’s arrest, disappearance, and the persistent official
refusal to admit responsibility. This repression took place over
an extended period and affected the whole nation. The statistics
we have compiled, based on information received, give the
following percentages:
People,
detained in front of witnesses, who have still not reappeared:
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