The Central Asian nation has long figured among the ‘worst of the worst’ in regards to political and human rights. A new report shines light on cases of activists being seized and then going missing.
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State-sponsored disappearance plays into the most primal of human fears – to vanish without a trace. The modern era started with Chile’s US-backed coup on September 11 1973
Before pilot Charles Taylor and company mysteriously vanished in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945, Taylor had to be rescued from the Pacific Ocean twice.
Hoffa’s ghost continues to haunt the labor movement.
99% of people who disappear come home again. A third of them don’t stay.
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Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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PhD Candidate, Griffith University
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Professor of Human Geography, University of Glasgow
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Professor of American Studies, Penn State
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Professor in Political Violence, University of Bath
