ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an analysis of the damage caused by the military government on victims and other sectors of society. It also provides a description of the Argentine political context of the 1970s that gave rise to the military dictatorship as well as its modus operandi. The chapter deepens the analysis by describing the specific characteristics of the enforced disappearance of people in Argentina. It addresses some of the legal political implications of state terror which derived from the absolute deprivation of rights. The chapter shows an overview of the crucial collaboration of the judiciary with the military regime as well as the resistance practices mounted by relatives, victims and human rights organisations. It gives an account of how terror affected the connections of victims to society by breaking social bonds and practices of solidarity, while it created an image of victims that contributed to their stigmatisation and a displacement of responsibility.
