RT Article
T1 Dirty Wars: On the Unacceptability Of Torture-A Conversation with Olga Talamante
JF Social justice
VO 33
IS 1
SP 106
OP 131
A1 Thomas, Suzanne Dod 1947-
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157597
AB Part of a special issue on immigration rights and national insecurity. An interview with Olga Talamante, a Chicana activist from California who was a torture victim in an Argentinian prison in 1974. Topics discussed include Talamante's experience of torture in Argentina; the debate over the use of torture as a weapon in the U.S. war on terrorism; and the different areas of struggle against torture today. The aim of the interview is to highlight the need to strengthen the human rights and social justice perspective within the present discourse on torture and to denounce American use and legitimization of torture.
K1 Talamante, Olga
K1 Trials (Torture)
K1 Imprisonment
K1 Activists
K1 Employees
K1 Associations, institutions, etc
K1 Human rights workers
K1 Counterterrorism -- United States
K1 Torture victims
K1 Torture
K1 Political violence -- History