Atrocity cover-ups rely on ordinary administrative compliance but are vulnerable to a single defector.

Evidence

The overlooked layer is that atrocity at scale is sustained by ordinary administrative choices — a filed report, an un-asked question, a passed-over anomaly — made by people who are not killers but enablers. And the same structure that hides the truth contains its weak point: a single participant who refuses to comply can bring the whole edifice down. — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive, 1135

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to whistleblower research, Arendt’s banality of evil, and the Ridenhour/Thompson role in breaking My Lai’s cover-up.
• QUESTION: What structural conditions predict when a single insider will defect rather than conform? Worth investigating in whistleblower literature.