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Author:
Del silencio a la memoria. English
Title:
From silence to memory : revelations of the AHPN / foreword by Carlos Aguirre ; preface to the English translation by Kate Doyle.
Publisher:
University of Oregon Libraries,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
lx, 476 pages : color illustrations, portraits (chiefly color), color facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Guatemala.--Policía Nacional--Records and correspondence.
Police--Guatemala--Records and correspondence.
Police--Guatemala--History--20th century--Sources.
Guatemala--History--1945-1985--Sources.
Guatemala--History--Civil War, 1960-1996--Sources.
Other Authors:
Aguirre, Carlos, author of introduction.
Doyle, Kate, author of introduction.
Guatemala. Archivo Histórico, Archivo Histórico, author.
University of Oregon. Libraries, issuing body.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-476).
Summary:
"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 Histórico de la Policía 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.
ISBN:
0985820403
9780985820404
OCLC:
(OCoLC)865475124
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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