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Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities

3 reviews
Martha Knisely Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, ...

University of California Press, 2002

Police Torturers Examined
An outstanding book, that took courage to put together-- telling with credibility and compassion about the torture to which the Brazilian police & military subjected citizens whom they saw as on the "wrong" side politically. The authors bring to light an evil we thought went out of fashion with the Inquisition -- but here it is again in the 20th century. They make it clear that the propensity to ...