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Archives of Terror
Documentary heritage submitted by Paraguay and recommended for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2009.
Year of submission: 2008


The Archives of Terror are official documents of police repression during the thirty-five years of Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship. They also contain supporting evidence of Operation Condor activities as a part of a campaign of political repressions involving assassination and intelligence operations which was officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictators of the Southern Cone of South America


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  • This item can be found in the following topics:
          · Registered Heritage
          · Latin America and Caribbean
          · Memory of the World Register 2009
          · Paraguay