The book “Another Voice for the Forcibly Disappeared”, published in 2014, serves as a living archive and documentation of the issue of enforced disappearance in Yemen across multiple decades. The book aims to shed light on the suffering of victims and their families, with a particular focus on the role women play—as mothers, wives, and daughters—in bearing the heavy social, economic, and psychological burdens, and leading the struggle to search for their loved ones.
It includes a collection of investigative articles and personal testimonies that tell painful stories of individuals who disappeared under mysterious circumstances during various political periods in Yemen—both before and after
unification—including the 1994 summer war and the events of January 1986.
The book defines enforced disappearance as arrest, detention, or abduction by state agents or individuals acting with state authorization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or concealment of the person’s fate and whereabouts—thus placing the individual outside the protection of the law. It stresses that this crime is not subject to any statute of limitations.
The book was published by Sawt Foundation for Development.
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