During his dictatorship, Franco succeeded in affiliating the ideology of his regime with some of the most important anthropological elements any culture can have. The concept of patria, religious rituals, foundational myths and traditional arts were all absorbed by fascism, and we have held on to this muddled association of […]
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Shumon Zahid: “The freedom fighters are forgotten”
He is the son of the departed journalist Selina Perveen. “My sorrows know no bounds but if I live to see the war criminals are tried, the killers of my mother are punished, I know the soul of my mother will rest in peace”… Shanta Sultana “The war criminals were […]
Shining Path, Movadef and the collective memory
Will a ‘General Amnesty’ Movadef-style, and a pardon for Fujimori, bring justice to the victims and their families, and in the cases of human rights violations which are still to be investigated? Claudio Chipana During the decades of the ‘80’s and ‘90’s Peru lived through the ‘Manchay Tiempo’ (see Carlos […]
A child of the war in Africa
José Manuel Valdermar Prata spent the first years of his life in his birthplace Benguela, a coastal city west of Angola. At the age of nine, he was already aware that the country had been immersed into a civil war, one which at times seemed to be resolved by peace, […]
Racism takes over the Greek streets
A significant number of immigrants living in the country are avoiding large cities for fear of being violently attacked. Years of inadequate migrant management, the economic crisis and a rise in support for neo-Nazi groups have resulted in attacks becoming a serious problem. _ Miriam Valero Yunus […]