Secret Political Abduction

A Secret Political Abduction is an political abduction that is a kidnapping.

• Example(s):
  • one carried out under a U.S. Kidnap and Interrogate Program.
  • one carried out under a Operation Condor Program.
• See: Dirty War, Crime Against Humanity, Statute of Limitations, International Convention For The Protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance, Plausible Deniability.

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References

2020

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_disappearance Retrieved:2020-5-22.
  • In international human rights law, a forced disappearance (or enforced disappearance) occurs when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization, or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate and whereabouts, with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.

    According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which came into force on 1 July 2002, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed at any civilian population, a "forced disappearance" qualifies as a crime against humanity and, thus, is not subject to a statute of limitations. On 20 December 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

    Often, forced disappearance implies murder. The victim in such a case is typically abducted, illegally detained and often tortured during interrogation, and ultimately killed, their body concealed after the fact by the individuals or organization responsible for their death. Typically, a murder will be surreptitious, with the corpse disposed of to escape discovery so that the person apparently vanishes. The party committing the murder has plausible deniability, as nobody can provide evidence of the victim's death.

    "Disappearing" political rivals is also a way for regimes to engender feelings of complicity in populations. The difficulty of publicly fighting a government that murders in secret can result in widespread pretense that everything is normal, as it did in the Dirty War in Argentina.

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