Human Rights, Social Sciences, Sociology 

During the 1970's, Argentina was torn by terror from both the extreme right and the far left. With the coming to power in 1976 of the first of three military juntas, however, the ruling armed forces responded to the terrorists' cries with a terrorism far worse than that they were combating. The security forces of the military kidnapped, tortured, and assassinated thousands of human beings with impunity. Their victims came to be called desparecidos, "the disappeared". -- One of Raul Alfonsin's first acts upon assuming the presidency of Argentina's new civilian government in 1983 was to set up an independent commission to investigate the fate of the disappeared. Nunca Mas is the report of that commission, and it presents a harrowing picture of life in Argentina under military rule, In its pages, survivors recount how they and others were seized at their place of work, in their homes, or on the street in broad daylight and then transported to clandestine detention centers, subjected to nightmarish tortures, and kept ignorant of their ultimate fate. the pattern of abduction, torture , and incarceration which emerges from these firsthand accounts reveals an abuse of human rights not only brutal but systematic. - from Amzon