Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared

Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared
Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos
Formation1975 (1975)
FounderClotario Blest
Founded atSantiago
Typehuman rights organization
Official language
Spanish

The Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared (AFDD) (Spanish: Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos), is a Chilean human rights group that formed in Santiago in 1974 in the wake of detentions and disappearances of thousands of people by the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

The main focus of the group was to maintain awareness of the desaparecidos in the public eye, and to pressure the regime to release information about them. The goals and pressure brought to bear by the Association played an influential role in the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the reestablishment of democracy in Chile and the 1989 election of President Patricio Aylwin.

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