Enforced disappearance is considered one of the most serious crimes against humanity. It has been committed for decades without being incriminated and without punishing those who committed it particularly in the fifties and sixties of the last century in many states. This crime has not been confronted on the level of international law unless at the beginning of the final decade of the last century. This actually paved the way to incriminate it on national levels in many states. However, this did not prevent authoritarian regimes from using it as an instrument to destroy their opponents and as a systematic policy to silence them.
This study is attempting to deal with the various aspects of Enforced Disappearance crime through presenting the aspects of this phenomenon, its social effects and the legal framework of confronting it. The study also presents the case of Argentina as a prominent model of Enforced Disappearance phenomenon in terms of the massive systematic practice of this crime and the long-term struggle to confront it and handle its damages.
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