Breaking Silence: The Case That Changed the Face of Human Rights

by Richard Alan White

Book Overview

Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Fil rtiga was taken from his family home in Asunci n, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police. Breaking Silence is the inside story of the quest for justice by his father-the true target of the police-Paraguayan artist and philanthropist Dr. Joel Fil rtiga. That cruel death, and the subsequent uncompromising struggle by Joelito's father and family, led to an unprecedented sea change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589012240
• ISBN13: 9781589012240
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"