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The 24 pages that link to Enforced disappearance, each with the reason it gives.

• Military dictatorshipRelated: Military dictatorships have used disappearances to terrorize opponents and obscure state responsibility.

• Guatemalan Civil WarRelated: Disappearances suppressed opposition while obscuring responsibility and victims’ whereabouts.

• Guatemalan genocideRelated: Disappearances terrorized communities and removed people suspected of supporting the insurgency.

• GukurahundiRelated: Disappearances and secret detention accompanied the campaign’s broader pattern of repression.

• National Security DoctrineRelated: Security forces used disappearance to remove opponents while obstructing accountability.

• Sheikh HasinaRelated: Families and rights organizations accused security forces under her governments of disappearances.

• State terrorismRelated: Concealing custody spreads fear while denying families and communities reliable knowledge of what happened.

• Inter-American Court of Human RightsRelated: The Court's jurisprudence helped establish that disappearance can entail continuing violations and investigative duties.

• Argentine military dictatorshipRelated: The regime used disappearance to terrorize communities while obscuring victims’ fate and state responsibility.

• Political purgeRelated: Concealed detention can neutralize opponents while obstructing accountability.

• Pact of ForgettingRelated: Many families still seek answers about people disappeared under Francoist repression.

• Jorge Rafael VidelaRelated: The regime used this method to terrorize opponents and conceal killings.

• Ernesto SábatoRelated: The commission investigated this crime and collected accounts from survivors and families.

• Anti-communist mass killingsRelated: Disappearances extended repression and obstructed families’ efforts to learn what happened.

• Enrique Gorriarán MerloRelated: The La Tablada aftermath included disappearances that became central to human-rights investigations.

• IkizaRelated: Many victims were seized by state agents and killed without public accounting.