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Geostrategics 15.04.2025

Impacts and psychological sequelae of human rights abuses

Dr. Pierre DUTERTE Download the article as PDF Summary: There is no violation of human rights which does not lead to psychological consequences for the victims who suffered them. Unlike physical sequelae, psychological sequelae...

Impacts and psychological sequelae of human rights abuses


Dr. Pierre DUTERTE

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Executive Summary: There is no violation of human rights which does not lead to psychological consequences for the victims who suffered them. Unlike physical sequelae, psychological sequelae do not disappear or disappear. The author was able to assess in Cambodia victims of the Pol Pot regime, who still had symptoms – major – 30 years after the commission of the facts. And in Peru, 20 years after the end of President Fujimori’s dictatorial regime, the findings were the same. It is important to know and take them into account.

Keywords: Human rights, trauma, post-traumatic stress, dissociation,
Identification with the aggressor, Cambodia, Fujimori, Symptoms, Psychological sequence, Abuse,
Victimes, Exil, Migration, Torture.

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