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Definition of Disappearances
1. disappearance [n] - See also: disappearance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disappearances
Literary usage of Disappearances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Honduras: The Facts Speak for Themselves : the Preliminary Report of the by Human Rights Watch/Americas, Center for Justice and International Law (1994)
"The Pattern of disappearances The cases of disappearances presented in this report
show similar characteristics and thus indicate that—at least during the ..."
2. Systemic Injustice: Torture, "disappearance", and Extrajudicial Execution in by Joel A. Solomon, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1999)
"Current "disappearances" in Mexico fall into three main types. ... In some
instances, these "disappearances" are temporary and followed by acknowledged ..."
3. Into the Quagmire: Human Rights and U.S. Policy in Peru by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.), Americas Watch Committee (U.S. (1991)
"The number of disappearances has remained exceptionally high over several years —
from 1987 through 1990, the United Nations >(UN) recorded the highest ..."
4. Guatemala, Getting Away with Murder: An Americas Watch and Physicians for by Americas Watch Committee (U.S.), Anne Manuel, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1991)
"disappearances, TORTURE AND EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS The Guatemalan military is
credited with having introduced the use of "disappearances" as a repressive ..."
5. Human Rights in Guatemala During President de León Carpio's First Year by Human Rights Watch/Americas (1994)
"rv disappearances, TORTURE AND ARBITRARY DETENTIONS That the Guatemalan military
has a practice of clandestine detention of those suspected to have links ..."
6. Human Rights in Tajikistan: In the Wake of Civil War by Rachel Denber, Jeri Laber (1993)
"disappearances AND INFORMAL PRISONS Memorial HRC and Human Rights Watch/Helsinki
Watch received many reports of disappearances ..."
7. Humanitarian Law Violations in Kosovo by Fred Abrahams (1998)
"Forty-four of these "disappearances" are directly attributable to the ...
Below are some cases of "disappearances" of ethnic Albanians believed to have been ..."
8. Divide and Rule: State-Sponsored Ethnic Violence in Kenya by Binaifer Nowrojee, Bronwen Manby, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Africa Watch Committee (1993)
"In fact many prisoners disappeared from the Koevoet detention camp in Oshakati.
The physical construction of the camp facilitated disappearances. ..."
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