Nunca Mas Report

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An independent commission was formed to investigate the fate of citizens during the 1970's in Argentina during the Dirty Wars. Nunca Mas is the report of the commission. The military kidnapped, tortured, and assassinated thousands. Their victims were called desparecidos, or the disappeared. From the reading, one can form an analysis of testimonies from The Dirty Wars from the Nunca Más report in regards to the political and ideological persecution of the people. The commission shows what life in Argentina under military rule was like during the Dirty Wars. It detailed survivor’s accounts how they were taken, transported to detention centers, and tortured. What was learned was a pattern of abduction, torture, and incarceration which revealed …show more content…
With the help if the Arilleras, which recounts the social, political, and personal injustices faced by the people, mainly women of Chile during a vicious rule. The Arilleras tells the stories of injustices of political and ideological persecution to the world in a creative way. Relatives of the Disappeared in Chile began to make “arpilleras,” which were handcrafted scraps of materials, or patchworks collected or donated by women or the churches in Chile. They were used as notes sent to the outside world, to people who would help spread was happening to people who could act on their behalf to help them in their different needs or would be able to pass on messages to their family. These notes were genius because they were not seen as a way of communication to the outside world. While being detained, Chilean women had almost no ways of telling anyone on the outside world of the injustices going on. Even the best guards in jails and prisons did not think about checking the appliquéd pictures for messages, since sewing was seen as inconsequential 'women's work'. Nor did other people recognize the power they could have when denouncing what was really happening and was otherwise denied by the government authorities and ignored by most of society. These Arpilleras helped serve as testimony for the Chilean women and proved their determined struggle for truth and justice and to break the code of silence imposed upon them and their country because political and ideological
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