Among the 35 items of exceptional documentary heritage added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, during the meeting of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme 28-31 July in Bridgetown, Barbados, the following two main fonds have been registered:

Archives of Terror (Paraguay)

The Archives of Terror are official documents of police repression during the 35 years of Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship. They also contain supporting evidence of Operation Condor activities, part of a campaign of political repressions involving assassinations and intelligence operations launched in 1975 by the right-wing dictators of the Southern Cone of South America.

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archives (Cambodia)

Photographs and documents from the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the former S-21 prison and interrogation centre where more than 15,000 people are believed to have been held and only a handful survived. The archive contains photographs of over 5,000 of these prisoners, as well as “confessions”, many extracted under torture, and other biographical records of prisoners, prison guards and officials in the security apparatus

Perrine Canavaggio