Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos, Desaparecidos y Mártires por la Liberación Nacional

Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos, Desaparecidos y Mártires por la Liberación Nacional
(ASOFAMD)
   / ASSOCIATION OF RELATIVES OF THE DETAINED, DISAPPEARED AND MARTYRED FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION
   A human-rights nongovernmental organization in Bolivia. ASOFAMD was formally established in October 1982, when the country returned to democracy, though it grew out of efforts from 1970 onward to demand humane treatment for captured guerrillas and to protest forced disappearances and summary ASOCIACIÓN DE FAMILIARES DE DETENIDOS, DESAPARECIDOS Y MÁRTIRES • 45 executions. One of its achievements was bringing a lawsuit against the former dictator Luis García Meza and 58 of his collaborators. He and several others were convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison without parole.

Historical Dictionary of the “Dirty Wars” . . 2010.

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