From Argentina to Cambodia, Picturing the Disappeared

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From Argentina to Cambodia, Picturing the Disappeared

In this week’s issue, Francisco Goldman writes about the forced disappearance of as many as thirty thousand people by the military junta that ruled …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/03/the-disappeared.html?currentPage=all

Gervasio Sánchez’s book “Disappeared” explores the nightmare of forced disappearance not just in South America but around the world: Cambodia and Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Spain. The countries span the globe, but “the violence, the tragedy, the pain and loss and suffering, however, are the same,” Carmen Contreras Gomez, the managing director of the Obra Social Caja Madrid, writes in the introduction