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Every
single day people are being murdered by government forces. They
are being killed for their political views, for belonging to a
particular community, or simply for being poor. Every day, too,
people seized by government agents are facing another form of
elimination when they vanish into secret custody as if they never
existed. They "disappear." Millions of men, women, and children
have suffered such fates since the 1960s - the victims not of
wars between nations, but of deliberate government policies of
repression. Their deaths or "disappearances" were ordered or condoned
by state officials, the very people entrusted to protect their
lives and liberty.
-- Amnesty International in Getting Away with Murder: Political
Killings and "Disappearances" in the 1990s, © 1993, pg. 1. |