oh hey what if i just violently sobbed. well guess what mimi, [i] did /ref

absolutely heartbreaking book. there were so many points i had to fight back tears because the sheer amount of atrocities outlined in this book was insane. the fact this book couldn’t have even covered every single atrocity committed during the two genocides is fucking insane. holy shit.

i really don’t think a lot of this will leave me for a while. i’m still sitting here like 5 hours later thinking about how horrific death flights are, and the quote about how it would take 30 teams 30 years and they wouldn’t even be remotely close to exhuming all the dead from these genocides. like fuck. and i mean god learning about the rites performed when a family gets back the bones… the madres de plaza de mayo….. the fucking girl with her dog????? yeah i was a fucking mess. i actually cannot wrap my head around this book the info is that insane. every chapter the depravity covered just gets more and more horrifying. holy shit. i am so so glad i read this because i never even knew argentina or guatemala had genocides! granted it’s not taught here in australia because we have our own horrifying history to teach in schools but fuck. i feel like my eyes have been opened. that sounds insane but truly that’s how i feel. this is a non-fiction book i am going to be recommending to everyone for years to come because woah. i was blown away.