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General Sources on Human Rights Abuses and
Other International Issues
The National Security Archive . An excellent archive
maintained in Washington, DC. Archives
and analyzes tens of thousands of secret U. S. CIA and State Department
documents that were declassified under the Freedom of Information Act and by
President Clinton in the interest of full disclosure of U. S. involvment in
Cuba, Chile, Guatemala, Iran, Libya and many other nations.
Amnesty International's Search Engine
A search engine for Amnesty
International web pages documenting human rights abuses in various countries
throughout the world.
The Nation Magazine archive of
articles on all issues . One of
the oldest U. S. publications on national and international events. Definitely from a progressive
perspective. You can search for back
articles on any international issues.
Current
Issue of The Nation Magazine
Guatemala
National
Security Archives Declassified Documents Relating to U.S. Intervention in
Guatemala. An excellent source. Contains declassified State Department
and CIA documents related to the U.S. backed coup of 1954 and years of military
repression since then.
A Human Rights
History of Guatemala. Provides a brief overview of Guatemalan
history from the stand point of human rights; extends through pre-Columbian
times, the conquest, and the present with special emphasis on modern political
repression and military abuses especially of indigenous people; builds a case
that the abuse of human rights in Guatemala is genocide against the indigenous
population.
1999 Amnesty
International Report on Human Rights Abuses in Guatemala
1998
Amnesty International Report on Human Rights Abuses in Guatemala
1997
Amnesty International Report on Human Rights Abuses in Guatemala
Other
Links on Guatemala provided by Amnesty International . Links
compiled in 1998.
Violence against Returning
Refugees (1996). Human Rights Watch report about government's and
military's treatment of people returning from refugee camps.
Report
of Bishop's Assassination . Information about the assassination
in Guatemala City of the auxiliary Bishop who coordinated the work of the Truth
and Reconciliation Committee in its researching and writing of Nunca Mas,
which implicated the military in ninety percent of the killings during the
years of repression in Guatemala
1997
Human Rights Report: Guatemala. U. S. State Department report on
the human rights situation in Guatemala since the Peace Process.
Organizations
in Guatemala. Hot links to numerous mass organizations in
Guatemala, including popular groups that oppose the military, support
indigenous rights, and protest disappearances.
Guatemala:
State of Impunity. Examinees the issue of granting broad amnesty
and immunity from prosecution to the military leaders responsible for the
nearly 200,000 murders in Guatemala.
Argentina
Argentina
Human Rights Information. Maintained by Derechos Humanos: Human
Rights; provides comprehensive information about current human rights concerns;
contains numerous links to related sites; (available in Spanish and English
versions).
Argentina
- Human Rights. Maintained by Derechos Humanos: Human Rights; provides
links to useful historical information on events leading to the military coup
and successive juntas as well as human rights abuses in Argentina during
"La Guerra Sucia" (The Dirty War); links include information on:
military leaders accused of abduction, torture, and murder; the
"disappeared" and their families; the "Mothers of the Plaza de
Mayo"; national and international human rights organizations' responses;
the presidential order of "impunity" for military personnel accused
of crimes; national and international responses to "impunity" issue.
The
Disappeared in Argentina. Maintained by several human rights
groups to remember and pay homage to the disappeared from Argentina and other
countries; contains background information on "La Guerra Sucia" and
information about some of the most notorious military leaders involved in abduction
and torture; contains links to related sites on the disappeared.
Homage
to the Disappeared in Argentina. A Virtual Memorial to some of the
disappeared, containing photographs and brief biographies.
The Vanished Gallery.
The most comprehensive web site available on "La Guerra Sucia" and
events leading to it, the disappeared, the military junta and those responsible
for the tortures, the secret detention centers, the modes of torture,
testimonios by survivors, confessions by torturers, etc. An Excellent Source
of Information.
Desaparecidos:
Bibliography. An excellent bibliography including topics such as:
"La Guerra Sucia," disappearances, psychology of torturers,
testimonios by survivors of torture, testimonio (confession) by torturer,
authoritarianism and nationalism in Argentina, the Mothers of the Plaza de
Mayo; hot-linked to Amazon.com. An Excellent Source.
More
bibliography. A continuation of the above bibliography. An
Excellent Source.
Interpreting Survivor
Testimony: Excellent article by political scientist, Prof. Karen
Slawner, "Interpreting Victim Testimony: Survivor Discourse and the
Narration of History"; analyzes the ideological justifications for the
Dirty War and interprets survivor testimony as a foucauldian counter-memory or
counter-history that offers an alternative historical narrative to the one
offered by the government's and military's master narrative grounded in the
ideology of "national security." A Must Read Source.
"El Desaparecido" ("Disappearance").
Article by Argentine writer, Analia Penchaszadeh, about the psychological
effects of "disappearances," their use as a terror tactic and means
of social control; looks at the importance, though impossibility, of
"speaking the unspeakable," and remembering those absent through
disappearance; examines how remembering forces one to confront the horror of a
loved one's torture and death; deals with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Web site maintained by the
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo; explains their work; contains photographs and
links to other sites; (available in Spanish only).
Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. Web site maintained by the
Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who have successfully located children
abducted by the junta or born in detention centers before their mothers were
murdered; explains their work; (available in Spanish and English versions).
Chile
The
Nation Magazine's report on U. S. declassified documents concerning Chile and
U.S. An analysis of the
documents being released under the Freedom of Information Act detailing U. S.
involvement in the military coup that overthrew the elected president of Chile,
Allende, bringing General Pinochet to power.
Chile Documentation Project of the National
Security Archive . An analysis of 16,000 recently declassified
documents revealing U. S. involvement in the Chilean coup that brought Pinochet
to power and overthrew the democratically elected socialist president, Salvador
Allende.
The
Crimes of Augusto Pinochet. Documents the abuses of the Pinochet
regime after the coup; includes first-person testimonios of torture and other
abuses; difficult reading because of the graphic testimonies; Excellent
Source.
Salvador
Allende's Final Address to the Nation. While the Pinochet coup was
preparing to attack the presidential palace, Allende speaks to the nation:
"Viva Chile! ... Viva el
pueblo! ... Vivan los trabajadores! (available in Spanish only).
"Chile:
How We Destroy the Oldest Democracy in the Hemisphere." Brief article
that uses U.S. State Department and CIA documents to reveal the U.S. plan to
oust Allende and rationalize the violent coup and subsequent repression of
civilian population under the guise of fighting Communism.
Chile
1964-1973 Excerpts from William Blum's book, Killing Hope;
offers a brief account of nine years of Chile's history leading up to the
Pinochet coup; examines U. S. intervention under Kennedy and Nixon
administrations; documents U.S. economic strategies at destabilization intended
to bring the Allende government down.
Spotlight
on Chile: Recent History Offers a brief account of Chilean
history; an interesting interpretation of the Pinochet coup from a right-wing
perspective (oh well, since Chile's economy is stable now, I guess the coup and
subsequent repression were necessary things); an analysis from an economic
perspective primarily.
Chile- Derechos Humanos. Maintained by Derechos
Humanos; contains information on human rights concerns in Chile, Pinochet, and
impunity; (available in Spanish only).
Salvador Allende.
Web site in honor of former Chilean president, Salvador Allende, who was
slain during the military coup that brought Gen. Pinochet to power; offers
biography and political analysis with numerous links; (available in Spanish
only).
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende. Homepage
for a unique museum founded during the presidency of Salvador Allende by
artists in solidarity with his progressive socialist reforms and supported by
artists who wish to see the return of democracy to Chile; (available in Spanish
only.)
Central and Latin America
Impunity.
Maintained by Derechos Humanos: Human Rights; contains a wealth of information
on the question of impunity (granting to military personnel pardons, amnesty
and immunity from prosecution for alleged abductions, torture and murder during
recent civil wars); links to sites on particular countries.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia
Woolf Web: Contains numerous links to web sites on Virginia Woolf,
modernism, Bloomsbury, Woolf societies, Woolf lists, biography, bibliography, etc;
the best Woolf web site.
Bloomsbury:
Omega & Hogarth. Focuses on the Omega Workshop, Virginia
Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and other Omega artists.
The
Virginia Woolf Society (International). Home page of
International Virginia Woolf Society.
Toni Morrison, Black
American History and Culture, American Studies
Anniina's
Toni Morrison Page. The best Morrison site on the Web. Contains
links to biography, bibliography, interviews with Morrison, essays.
Writing
Black Keele University, UK, web site with numerous links to sources on
many Black American writers and Black history. An Excellent Source.
Black
Power Points. Keele University, UK, web site with numerous links to
sources for the study of African-American and African history and culture,
including colonization and the slave trade through the present. An Excellent
Source.
American
Studies Keele University, UK, American Studies Department web site with
numerous links to resources including major research institutions and libraries
with special collections.
Historical.
Contains links to historical documents pertinent to the study of Beloved
(e.g.: Missouri Compromise of 1820, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act,
Dred Scott Case, Emancipation Proclamation, etc.). Pertinent to study of
Beloved.
Toni Morrison
References On The Internet. Contains some links not included in
Annina's pages; not as useful
TIME
Cover Story: January 19, 1998. Time Magazine's feature article
on Morrison. Interesting for its banality and trivialization of Morrison.
African
American Mosaic: Library of Congress web-site of resources for
the study of Black history and culture; contains information and documents on
slavery, abolition, Black migration to the West and to northern urban centers,
WPA oral narratives by ex-slaves, etc. An Excellent Archival Source.
Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture Home Page. Provides links pertinent
to African American history and culture maintained by the Schomburg Center of
the New York Public Library.
Schomburg
Exhibition, Harlem 1900-1940
Digital
Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
Digital
Schomburg Images - Slavery. Images of slavery, including auctions,
slave pens, escapes, Margaret Garner, and abolitionist "propaganda"
photographs. Pertinent to Beloved.
Center for the
Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. Homepage of University of
Chicago's Center.
Civil Rights Oral
History Bibliography. Oral history project containing first-person
testimonies from persons involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University. Archival
project containing links to the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Texts
in African American History. Archive of primary texts pertinent to
African American history including slavery, emancipation, the Civil Rights
Movement, contemporary race relations.
Women's and Minority
Studies Links; Humanities; Literary Studies
Distinguished
Women of Past and Present
Voice
of the Shuttle English Literature: Minority
Voice of the Shuttle.
Comprehensive web-site for the study of the humanities including literature of
various historical eras, nations, and cultures; cultural studies;
African-American studies; women's studies; gender studies; queer theory;
theory; includes its own search engine. A Superb Source.
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