Why does enforced disappearance continue to happen?
One reason is the failure to confront and remember past state violence.
In a new submission to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Memorial Human Rights Defence Center examines how the politics of memory shape present-day abuses.
The report looks at three interconnected issues:
• the memorialization of Soviet state terror
• the remembrance of enforced disappearances in the North Caucasus
• and enforced disappearances linked to Russia’s war against Ukraine
• the memorialization of Soviet state terror
• the remembrance of enforced disappearances in the North Caucasus
• and enforced disappearances linked to Russia’s war against Ukraine
These cases show how unresolved past crimes and suppressed memory create conditions in which similar violations can recur.
Read the full submission below.
Input for Thematic Report on Enforced Disappearances and Memorialization: by Memorial HRDC