Document #1192977
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For information additional to that provided
in ARG17150.E, please refer to the attached article. This article
names Adolfo Donda (or Dunda) as one of a group of navy officers
held aboard a navy ship in 1987 while awaiting the outcome of a
judicial hearing on their participation in various crimes committed
during the most recent Argentine military dictatorship. ARG17150.E
reports that Donda benefited from the application of the Due
Obedience Law; information on the 1987 enactment and application of
the Due Obedience Law can be found in Response to Information
Request ARG6492 of 19 July 1990.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below a list of
sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Attachment
The Associated Press (AP). 27 February
1987. AM Cycle. "12 Argentine Officers To Be Tried For Rights
Abuses." (NEXIS)
Additional Sources Consulted
Amnesty International Report.
Yearly.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices. Yearly. U.S. Department of State. Washington: U.S.
Government Printing Office.
Critique: Review of the Department of
State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Yearly. New
York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) Latin America Daily Report.
Human Rights Watch World Report.
Yearly.
News from Americas Watch [New York].
Monthly.
Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights
in Latin America (ICCHRLA). Yearly. Annual Reports: General
Concerns and Brief Country Reports.
Latinamerica Press [Lima]. Weekly.
Latin American Weekly Report
[London].
Material from the Indexed Media Review
(IMR) or country files containing articles and reports from diverse
sources (primarily dailies and periodicals) from the Weekly Media
Review.
Newspapers and periodicals pertaining to
the appropriate region.
Note on oral sources:
Oral sources are usually contacted when documentary sources have been exhausted. However, oral sources must agree to be quoted in a publicly available Response to Information Request. If they refuse, the Response will read "no information currently available." Contacting oral sources is also subject to time constraints; for example, there are periods of the year when academics are unavailable.
Note:
This list is not exhaustive. Country-specific books available in the Resource Centre are not included.