Abstract
Chapter 2 uses theories about post-transitional justice and the importance of domestic activism to evaluate the role of the state and human rights organizations in Mega Cause I. The involvement of the state and its support of the trial showed an initiative to acknowledge the responsibility of the state for crimes committed during the dictatorship and to punish those who were guilty. In this effort, departments of the state worked closely with top human rights organizations throughout the trial to help legally represent victims in court, assist the victims of state terrorism and the witnesses at the trial, and publicize the trial. In analyzing the state and human rights organizations, this chapter looks at the Human Rights Secretariat, the Ulloa Center, the IEM, and CELS.
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Notes
Victim-witness (víctima-testigo) is defined in the Ulloa Center Protocol as “any person that has bodily suffered the actions of the Terrorism of the State and that provides testimony for themselves or for others. This concept also covers the family members of the people who were detained or who remain disappeared” (Ulloa Center, 2011, p. 20).
The Ulloa Center assists victims of all human rights abuses, not just victims of state terrorism.
Protocolo de Intervención para el Tratamiento de Victimas-Testigos en el marco de Procesos Judiciales.
Plan Nacional de Acompañamiento y Asistencia a Querellantes y testigos víctimas del Terrorismo de Estado.
Ley N°961/2002.
www.institutomemoria.org.ar.
Compañera.
www.cels.org.ar/esma.
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Davis, C. (2013). The Role of the State and Human Rights Organizations. In: State Terrorism and Post-transitional Justice in Argentina: An Analysis of Mega Cause I Trial. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367501_2
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