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Nunca Mas: Informe De LA Comision Nacional Sobre LA Desaparicion De Personas/Nunca Mas : The Report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disa (Spanish Edition)

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Ernesto Sabato, Magdalena Ruiz Giñazú, and other importan peoples of our country give part of their life (literally) to this fact. Please read this book to suppor the idea of "NeverMore"

The case of the Argentina's repression of 1976-82 reads like a jumble of loose and disorganized pieces, hastily put together. While the horror stories are real and documented, their effect is lost through the haphazard way the whole text is put together. Someone needs to weave a storybook from the perspective of mothers who lost their children, husbands/wives who lost their spouses and so on, and give a little background on the history. Can someone in Argentina rise to the task and compile such a book? The world needs to know.

Argentina's 1976-82 period must rate as one of the more horrible episodes of our dark century. The book gives short descriptions of what particular people went through although the combination of multiple authors and a committee production ultimately makes it read like a bureaaucratic document. What a book like this really needs is a focused narrative into the horrible stories of a few individuals with all the statistical stuff condensed into a few charts at the end. That way it would have more punch and be more interesting to read. An admirable attempt to understand some of the inhuman practices of the military repression which hopefully some other writer can expand on in the future.

The book is nothing more than a biased report of what really happened in Argentina during the period 1976-1983. The best example of this is that the real number of "desaparecidos" was not 30,000 but 7,000. If you are going to write a serious report at least try to be accurate...