Dealing with the Past

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Crónica de las vicisitudes y lecciones de 503 dias de lucha por la extradición de Pinochet a España Proyecto Internacional de Derechos Humanos

Con la detención del dictador Augusto Pinochet, el pueblo de Chile comenzó a levantar sus ojos hacia un futuro en el cual la impunidad y la injusticia se convertirían en sombras de un pasado deshonroso para su historia.

Colectivo Rescatando Palabra y Memoria

Patricio Véjar, por el grupo La memoria: Identidad y proyecto que se convierten en lucha social.

Nuevamente los rostros se acercan, muestran la desconfianza de tanto tiempo, las marcas del dolor colectivo pueden ser reconocidas por quien quiera observar más allá de la superficie. El silencio es la actitud primordial, sólo roto por múltiples reencuentros que se dan para cada ocasión que la memoria es convocada.

Editorial

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por Roberta Bacic

Compañer@s:

La idea de editar un número de El Fusil Roto en castellano y sólo con temas sobre América Latina, pululaba en mi mente desde la Trienal de Porec (Croacia) en 1998. Si bien logramos con mucho esfuerzo que voluntarios nos traduzcan al castellano nuestro conocido El Fusil Roto (Broken Rifle), casi siempre se traducen artículos que no fueron escritos en nuestra lengua y - en la mayoría de los casos - no fueron escritos por nuestros grupos pues el ejemplar tiene temas de cobertura internacional.

They are capable of contributing to the acknowledgement of two substantial issues the institutional setting up of the country in which they are set up can not deal with the issues concerning human rights violations, so they have to create a body, separate of them, to tackle this concern.the existence of a commission and the outcoming report brings about a public acknowledgement of what has been known all along by victims and perpetrators, and which has been ignored or denied by a big part of societyWhilst they are working they are set up to es

Dealing with the past

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Roberta Bacic

When referring to dealing with the past we have first to agree as regards what we understand by it. Working with relatives of victims of political repression and having lived it personally, has made me come to the conclusion that dealing with the past means 'learning to live / coping / struggling' in the present with our own personal and social lives which have been marked with repressive events we did not choose, want or provoke. On top of that they were inflicted by other human beings and most of the time deliberately.

Roberta Bacic, programme workerLecturesDealing with the past. Chile: A case study of human rights and human wrongs.
For MA Students at Bradford University, Peace Studies.
Thursday 8th of February, 2.30-5 PMHuman rights or human wrongs?
For certificate students, at University of Cambridge, Centre of Latin American Studies.
Wednesday 21st of February, 1-3 PMDealing with the past.
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