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Judge and the General
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According to the accounts of Judge Guzman presented by this interview, they did not believe people were in actuality being disappeared during Pinochet's Dictatorship. At first, he thought that disappearing meant that people were arrested and would be held in lockup or jail for some time. After some time, they would be released and will reappear ("The Judge and the General,").
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During the Pinochet dictatorship, Judge Juan Guzman was an appellate court judge. For human rights cases, judges in Chile were responsible for multiple things during the trial process such as investigation, prosecution and trying cases. Even during his term, he was considered as a conservative judge, who went against most of the rulings given by higher judges ("The Judge and the General,").
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To establish their oppressive rule in Chile, the Pinochet regime took out anyone who would oppose their leadership such as the assignation of Orlando Letelier. Furthermore, the caravan of death was the name given to a military unit, who under the orders of General Pinochet to far-flung areas in Chile to hunt and kill any activist that opposed his regime ("The Judge and the General,"). This was confirmed during the investigation done by Judge Guzman, who thousands of such cases. Out of these the most notable ones were Manuel Donoso and Cecilia Castro.
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In the Chilean legal system, the investigation is run by the judge, he is also the one who investigates, the one who tries the case and the one who gives the sentence. Because the case was important a member of the court of appeals was chosen and as the judges take turns in taking cases, this time the turn was of Juan Guzman ("The Judge and the General,"). His appointment was thought to make attaining justice improbable as he was a right-wing judge who was still very skeptical about the charges that were discussed in the case. At the start, the judiciary did not give him many resources to work with as nobody wanted his investigation to move forward.
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Judge Guzman decision regarding the mental competency of Pinochet stemmed from an interview Pinochet gave to a Miami reporter. In this interview, the judge realized that Pinochet was logical, able to discriminate between important and non-important things, had an understanding between right and wrong and had the mindset of how to present himself in the best light ("The Judge and the General,"). All this and with the doctor’s recommendation he declared Pinochet mentally competent.
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The film is the depiction of one of the most difficult times that Chile had to face. In which where the man they once thought of as their savior from a communist regime turned out to be the devil in disguise ("The Judge and the General,").
Genocide Worse Than War-Daniel Goldhagen
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The subject of this document is how genocide is worse than war. This word, Genocide, is condemned in the eyes of the world and is a great regret for humanitarians. Genocide and the gravity of situation this word brings have led people to believe how humanity has failed each other ("Genocide Worse than War Full Length Documentary Pbs").
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A scorched earth campaign was done by the Guatemalan military conducted that was focused on the Mayan people and leftist insurgents. In their view, the Mayan people were thought of subversive and an obstruction to the progress of the country. To stop any future rebellion, they took the Mayan people out of their homes and massacred them ("Genocide Worse than War Full Length Documentary Pbs").
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According to Rios Montt, he did not commit any genocide and if anyone has any proof of it they should bring it into the court of law. Furthermore, to put pressure on his point he describes a demented and self-assuring version of the definition of the word Genocide. But in the summer of 2013, he was convicted and sentenced for the genocide he had caused and for the crimes that he perpetrated against humanity ("Genocide Worse than War Full Length Documentary Pbs").
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This video delved deep into genocides that had occurred in different parts of the world. This video tries to find the repercussions of the actions of the few that led to the deaths of many and the reasoning behind these heinous decisions. Furthermore, to give more weight to his documentary the interviewer even included the accounts of his father who had faced hardships at the hands of the Germans ("Genocide Worse than War Full Length Documentary Pbs").
Work Cited
"Genocide Worse Than War Full Length Documentary Pbs." YouTube. N.p., 2019. Web. 19 July 2019.
"The Judge And The General" YouTube. N.p., 2019. Web. 19 July 2019.
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