Derechos humanos y memoria entre los familiares de represores en la Argentina

Abstract

In 2006, after trials for crimes against humanity had began, different organizations of relatives, friends and comrades-in-arms of prosecuted and convicted military and police officers emerged to support and defend their relatives. This article focuses in strategies and arguments used to challenge the legitimacy of trials for crimes against humanity and improve the procedural and criminal situation of theirs loved ones. This analysis aims, on one hand, to identify uses and resignifications of paradigm of human rights and humanitarian narrative made by these organizations; and, on other hand, to link this new repertoire of claims and demands with significant aspects of the struggles for memory in Argentina: the place of kinship, the centrality of the figure of victim and the language of suffering. Finally, the article seeks to contribute to the study of the perpetrator in postdictatorial societies.