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Murder of Junko Furuta
Junko Furuta was a 17-year-old Japanese high school student who was abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered. Her abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers—Hiroshi Miyano (18), Jō Ogura (17), Shinji Minato (16), and Yasushi Watanabe (17)—and took place over a 40-day period starting on 25 November 1988.
Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Argentine human rights organization
Terry A. Anderson
American journalist (1947–2024)
William Francis Buckley
United States Army officer and the CIA station chief in Beirut
Ursula Herrmann kidnapping
homicide
HIJOS
HIJOS is a recursive acronym for Hijas e Hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio (English: Daughters and Sons for Identity and Justice Against Forgetfulness and Silence). It is the name of two organizations founded by children of people who were forcibly "disappeared" by military dictatorships in Argentina and Guatemala. The Argentine organization was founded in 1995 in the town of Río Ceballos, north of Córdoba, by activists from different parts of the country. The Guatemalan organization, founded in 1999 and based in Guatemala City, has received many death threats