Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities

Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities

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Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or claimed they had not, participated directly in the violence, help answer qu...more
Paperback, 314 pages
Published November 21st 2002 by University of California Press (first published November 4th 2002)
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