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03255aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 6031F3EC8E3311E3B5D817AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140205010036 008 131216t20132013oruach 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0985820403 020 $a 9780985820404 035 $a (OCoLC)865475124 040 $a CUS $b eng $e rda $c CUS $d CUS $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 043 $a ncgt--- 050 4 $a HV8165.A45 $b P6313 2013 130 0 $a Del silencio a la memoria. $l English 245 10 $a From silence to memory : $b revelations of the AHPN / $c foreword by Carlos Aguirre ; preface to the English translation by Kate Doyle. 246 1 $i Subtitle: $a Revelations of the AHPN 246 1 $i Subtitle on cover: $a Revelations of the Archivo HistoÌrico de la Policia Nactional 246 1 $i At head of title: $a Archivo HistoÌrico de la PoliciÌa Nacional (AHPN, Guatemala) 264 1 $a Eugene, OR : $b University of Oregon Libraries, $c 2013. 300 $a lx, 476 pages : $b color illustrations, portraits (chiefly color), color facsimiles ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-476). 520 8 $a "In 2005, when the AHPN was discovered, one government official commented, "Why waste time on this mountain of old paper." This is how they were actually found, piled on the floor, victims of time, humidity, laziness and pests, but above all, of secrecy and deception. From the first moment, the commitment on the part of those of us who worked in the Archivo HistoÌrico de la PoliciÌa Nacional was that we would not be limited to rescuing those (S2(Bold papers(S3 (Bfrom dust but, above all, to liberate them from oblivion and secrecy in order to uncover their content. Guatemalan society has a right to recover the truth, to provide dignity to their victims, and to want to know about the past, in order to begin healing. People who dont know their own history cannot understand the present, and dont know who they are. The original publication of the report Del silencio a la memoria was unanimously praised as a step forward in both making the work and mission of the AHPN widely known and offering a synthesis of its potential to understand how systematic state repression worked. The story told in this report is an exemplary case of commitment with the past and the future of a society still recovering from the wounds of violence and social injustice"--Abstract. 610 10 $a Guatemala. $b PoliciÌa Nacional $v Records and correspondence. 650 0 $a Police $z Guatemala $v Records and correspondence. 650 0 $a Police $z Guatemala $x History $y 20th century $v Sources. 651 0 $a Guatemala $x History $y 1945-1985 $v Sources. 651 0 $a Guatemala $x History $y Civil War, 1960-1996 $v Sources. 700 1 $a Aguirre, Carlos, $e author of introduction. 700 1 $a Doyle, Kate, $e author of introduction. 710 1 $a Guatemala. $b Archivo HistoÌrico, $b Archivo HistoÌrico, $e author. 710 2 $a University of Oregon. $b Libraries, $e issuing body. 776 08 $i Online version: $t From silence to memory. $d Eugene, OR : University of Oregon Libraries, 2013 $w (OCoLC)863703794 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171228020146.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6031F3EC8E3311E3B5D817AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search