The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and Its Discontents

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253 Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Argentina), 134–35, 137, 138, 142n4, 145n24 Abu Ghraib prison, 199n12 Accomarca case (Peru), 160, 166 Adorno, Theodor, 64 Agha-Soltan, Neda, 187 AI. See Amnesty International Alatas, Ali, 43, 45, 56n12 Alfonsín, Raúl, 128, 129 Alkatiri, Mari, 57n17 Allende, Salvador, 24n4 Al Qaeda, 191 Álvarez, Orlando, 170n8 Amaro Cóndor, Armando, 158 American Convention on Human Rights, 151 American Jewish Committee, 77n8 American Jewish Congress, 77n8 amnesty: in Argentina, 128, 151, 169; in Peru, 149, 151, 152–53, 164–66, 169; survivors on, 117. See also impunity laws Amnesty International (AI): in East Timor, 37, 39–41, 43, 45; human rights championed by, 33; on ideology, 33; photographs of Sudan-supplied military equipment flown into Darfur, 183–84, 199n16; role in Fujimori’s extradition, 155 Anderson, Benedict, 37, 56n4 Anderson, Carol, 53, 56n2 Annan, Kofi, 46, 47, 48, 55 anticolonialism, 33, 34, 53 Anti-Defamation League, 77n8 antigenocide movement, 68 apartheid, 73, 77n7 Aponte Ortiz, Efraín, 154 Argentina, truth about the disappeared in, 125–45; admissions of death flights and mass human rights violations, 129–30, 142nn6–7; and amnesty, 128, 151, 169; and anniversary of coup, 137, 139, 144n22; children of the disappeared , 17 (see also H.I.J.O.S.); CONADEP’s role in, 128, 142n5, 144n19, 151; decision to find out the truth, 139–41; vs. denials/lies, 127–28; “disappeared,” use of term, 136; and Due Obedience Law, 129, 132, 133, 134; escrache against Videla, 132–37, 144n18, 145n27; and Final Stop Law, 129, 132, 133, 134; hair-cutting event, 137–39, 144n21; HROs’ (human rights organizations’) role in, 128–29, Index  Argentina, truth about . . . (continued) 131–32, 137, 142nn4–5, 143n9, 143n11, 145n28; infants, abduction and identity restitution of, 133–34, 139–41, 145n30; international forums’ and NGOs’ role in, 142n2; memory/truth/justice, demand for, 125–26, 142n1; no perdonamos, noolvidamos, no nos reconciliamos (we do not forgive, do not forget, do not reconcile), 141– 42; Nunca Más, 128–29; overview of, 125–27; and pardons for perpetrators, 129; and the Space for Memory, 132, 139; within transitional justice processes, 127; transition and the demand for truth, 128–32; trials for perpetrators , 128, 132, 142n5, 143n10, 160; truth, meaning of, 17, 131, 135–36, 140–41; truth, types of, 142n3; truth and reconciliation commissions, 127, 142n3; truth trials, 130 ARWSP (Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme; India), 209–10, 215, 216, 217 Asociación Pro-Derechos Humanos (APRODEH; Peru), 171n12 Association of Ex-Detained Disappeared (Argentina), 137, 138, 144–45n23 Australia, pro-Indonesian policy of, 36, 48 Autesserre, Séverine, 101n33 Ayacucho (Peru), 6–7 Ba’ath party (Iraq), 113 Balza, Martín, 129–30 Barbuto, Valeria, 143n10 Barrios Altos massacre (Peru, 1991), 151–52, 154, 156, 157, 160, 169 Barry, Brian, 227, 229 al-Bashir, Omar, 183–84, 199n16 Belo, Carlos Filipe Ximenes, 41, 45– 46, 57n15 Benhabib, Seyla, 234 Bennett, Tony: The Birth of the Museum, 65 Bentham, Jeremy, 240, 242 Berlin Wall, collapse of, 42, 53–54 The Birth of the Museum (Bennett), 65 Bloch, Marc, 15 Bosnia-Herzegovina war, 22, 61–62, 67–68, 69 Brown, Wendy, 70 Bureau of Indian Standards Water Quality Standards, 208 Burke, Roland, 53, 56n2 Burundi, 15–16, 81–101; bashingantahe (wise men) in, 89–90, 100n15; civilian agency’s limits in, 96–98; death toll in, 83, 85, 100n9; democracy in, 85; demographic makeup/geography of, 82; genocide/ war in, 82–85, 97, 100nn4–5, 100n7; Ndadaye’s assassination, 15, 81–82, 84, 85–91, 94–95, 98; peace in Rumonge, 15, 81–82, 84–88, 98; peace in Rumonge, responses to threats to, 88–96, 98; politico-administrative units in, 100n3; reciprocity embraced in, 84–85; Rumonge’s history/location, 81, 82–85, 97 Bustíos Saavedra, Hugo, 148, 154 Cabanillas, Mercedes, 165 Cabitos case (Peru), 159 Cambodia: ECCC in, 108–9, 118; under the Khmer Rouge, 108–9, 118; surveys of survivors in, 118 Carey, Peter, 56n11 Carter, Jimmy, 33, 36–37, 52, 56n4 Cassar, Angela, 241 254 I n d e x Castillo Páez, Ernesto, 148, 154, 157, 162, 170n6 Catholic Church in East Timor, 38, 41, 43, 46, 52, 56n7 CAVR (Commission on Reception, Truth and Reconciliation; East Timor), 50–51, 57n22 “Charity Begins at Home!,” 182–83 Chega!, 51, 57n22 Chile, coup in (1973), 24n4 Chomsky, Noam, 37 Chuschi case (Peru), 148, 154, 162 climate change...