Keywords
right to truth
concealing memories
paramilitaries
memory and violence
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Abstract
The aim of this work is to implement analytical tools that help to describe the institutional truth on paramilitary violence in Colombia. As a case study, we have chosen the institutional truth contained in the photographic record the Semana magazine published on this phenomenon during years 1988-1989 and 1997-1999. Our analysis suggests this kind of records informs an institutional truth abstracting victims’ suffering by using two concealing memories: 1) paramilitary violence is exerted against subversion, and 2) anonymous victims are a necessary cost to pay to win war. These concealing memories continuously repeated stimulates the social model that identifies with the primeval father and makes room for continuous scapegoating.
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