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[2002] Australian International Law Journalextremist “pro-government vigilantes”. 58 Efforts by relatives, lawyers,journalists and human rights organisations to obtain information on“disappeared” individuals usually run into the Byzantine maze ofgovernment bureaucracy or the solid wall of “classified” State securityinformation which gives the government firm ground to use the alibi of“matters of national security” to effectively forestall inquisition into itsshadowy operations.3.3.2. The Iron Curtain of SecrecyConsidering the illegality of “disappearances” and political killings,those responsible for them--the people who plan, order, carry out andacquiesce in them--will want to avoid being called to account and bepunished. Secrecy helps to accomplish this. It also helps to allow aprogram of “disappearances” and extra-judicial executions to continueby confusing and neutralising the efforts of those who would takecorrective action.It is often the intelligence services which carry out “disappearances”58 See eg ibid 27,35; Amnesty International, Getting Away With Murder: PoliticalKillings and “Disappearances” in the 1990s (1993, London, Amnesty International)33-38.21