Atención! Murderer Next Door (2020)

Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetrators’ homes and workplaces to publicly shame them and raise awareness about the government’s systematic and brutal targeting of its people — and how it had gone unpunished. The human rights group HIJOS (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetfulness and Silence) led and labeled this direct-action style of protest “escrache,” or exposure.

Released Dec. 4, 2020 14 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.one-actor, tmdb.dictator, tmdb.military-dictatorship, tmdb.protestors, tmdb.argentinean-history, mdblist.imdb-short

Production Companies: The New York Times

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: Spanish