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Panel Discussion Symposia: 1990: I - Accountability For State-Sponsored Human Rights Violations; Ii - The Circumvention Of Accountability; Iii - Achieving Accountability By Alternative Means, Kenneth Anderson, Ruti Teitel, Roberto Garraton Merino, Felipe Michelini, Alejandro Garro, Jaime Malamud-Goti
Panel Discussion Symposia: 1990: I - Accountability For State-Sponsored Human Rights Violations; Ii - The Circumvention Of Accountability; Iii - Achieving Accountability By Alternative Means, Kenneth Anderson, Ruti Teitel, Roberto Garraton Merino, Felipe Michelini, Alejandro Garro, Jaime Malamud-Goti
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Dedicated to the Memory of Owen M. KupferschmidAs the program indicates, the next panel addresses the issues of punishment, amnesties and pardons. The last ten years have witnessed in Latin America and other regions of the world, transitions from military regimes to democratically elected regimes. This shift has brought a call for a response by the legal systems to the gross abuses of prior military dictatorships and to the massive violations of basic human rights, including disappearances and torture.' This response took the form of trials of military officers in Argentina and other places.2 Amid this call for trials and …