8 procedures for the extradition of those facing charges for crimes committed in one country and arrested in another. As a secret treaty, Condor elevated crimes against human rights to the highest level of State policy, under the direct control of heads of State and ministers. And, its existence as an official instrument of six nations prevents these regimes from explaining their crimes against human rights as isolated acts of deluded officials or corrupt agents.”16 27. The list of the numerous victims of the Stroessner regime has been prepared and published by the Comité de Iglesias para Ayudas de Emergencia (CIPAE) based on the so-called “Terror Files” and with the symbolic title Testimonio contra el Olvido. The introduction to this document presents some important data, including: first, with the emergence of the moral conscience in the history of human thought, there is no way of denying the involvement of society (with the exception of the oppressed and tortured) in the establishment and preservation for so many years of the regime of oppression.17 Second, the grave human rights violations that occurred during the years of repression (1954-1989) were perpetrated with society’s apparent indifference to human suffering.18 28. Third, the “permanent repressive State harassment,”19 of a truly “totalitarian military State,”20 persisted throughout the extended state of siege (1954-1987), during which “the Executive had discretionary powers to detain, torture, expel, or even disappear persons.”21 And finally, fourth, these grave systematic human rights violations were perpetrated insufflated by the illusion of material “progress” disseminated by the militarism and “understood from the perspective of State totalitarianism.”22 The victims in the case of Goiburú et al. v. Paraguay before the Inter-American Court appear in the document Testimonio contra el Olvido based on the “Terror Files”: it mentions Agustín Goiburú,23 Carlos José Mancuello,24 Rodolfo Ramírez Villalba25 and Benjamín Ramírez Villalba.26 Numerous other victims had their rights violated by the same repressive regime and this context of terror, characteristic of authentic State crime prolonged over time and multiplying defenseless victims, cannot be minimized here. 16 . J. Dinges, Operación Cóndor - Una Década de Terrorismo Internacional en el Cono Sur, Santiago, Ed. B Chile, 2004, pp. 39-40; J. Dinges, Os Anos do Condor - Uma Década de Terrorismo Internacional no Cone Sul, São Paulo, Cia. das Letras, 2004, pp. 40-41; J. Dinges, The Condor Years - How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents, N.Y./London, The New Press, 2004, pp. 17-18. 17 . CIPAE, Testimonio contra el Olvido - Reseña de la Infamia y el Terror (Paraguay 1954-1989), Asunción, Ed. CIPAE, 1999, p. 10. 18 . Ibid., pp. 12 and 25. 19 . Ibid., p. 34. 20 . Ibid., p. 32. 21 . Ibid., p. 26. 22 . Ibid., p. 32. 23 . Ibid., pp. 85 and 340. 24 . Ibid., p. 392. 25 . Ibid., pp. 120 and 462. 26 . Ibid., pp. 120 and 462.

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