Anthropological knowledge within the framework of the Memory, Truth and Justice Process. Reflections on a experience as a "context witness" in the framework on the "Operative Independence (first part)" trial

In this work I am interested in reflecting on a new figure that has been gaining presence in trials for crimes against humanity developed since 2005: that of the ''context witness'', that specialist -generally of the social sciences- who is presented as a witness and whose contribution is taken as testimonial evidence (Abbattista, Barletta & Lenci, 2016). For this, I will rely on my participation in the oral and public trial "Operative Independence (first part)", in which I stated about my doctoral research on the experience of soldiers conscripted in the south of Tucuman during the said Operation, between 1975 and 1977. In particular, I will argue that the social sciences can provide minute reconstructions of the logic of repression that help us understand how the exercise of state terror was possible.