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Ayeray Medina Bustos
Ministry of Justice, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Published in: Proceedings from The Ethics of War and Pease. 51st Annual Conference of the Societas Ethica, August 21-24, 2014, Maribor, Slovenia

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 117:11, p. 115-133

Published: 2015-09-09

ISBN: 978-91-7685-933-9

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

After 37 years Argentina succeed in prosecuting its worst perpetrators, as an institutional response to repression and public trials are contested in many cities of the country. This paper will argue that public trials

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