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Torture in Brazil: Secretly Prepared by the Archiodese of Sao Paulo: A Shocking Report on the Pervasive Use of Torture by Brazilian Military ... Government 1964-79 (Special Publications) Book

In the military regime that ruled Brazil for 21 years, beginning in 1964, torture was so common a tactic of repression that military personnel were instructed in how to conduct it, with political prisoners used as "guinea pigs" for class exercises. In this grim book, originally published in Portuguese as Brazil: Nunca Mais (Brazil: Never Again) in 1985, human-rights activists published evidence--surreptitiously collected documents of actual military court trials--that showed not only the extent of torture, but the complicity of the judicial branch, which knew that many confessions were falsely obtained under duress. With relentless detail, the documents discuss who was tortured, what instruments were used to exact pain, and the physical, psychological, and moral consequences of brutal abuse, with the aim of forcing acknowledgment of the atrocities and creating an environment where reform and progress can be achieved, where people feel represented by their government rather than live in fear of it. As the man who at the time was archbishop of São Paulo writes in his preface, "This entire book is written in blood and with much love for our country."Read More

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    From 1964 until 1985, Brazil was ruled by a military regime that sanctioned the systematic use of torture in dealing with its political opponents. The catalog of what went on during that grim period was originally published in Portuguese as Brasil: Nunca Mais (Brazil: Never Again) in 1985. The volume was based on the official documentation kept by the very military that perpetrated the horrific acts. These extensive documents include military court proceedings of actual trials, secretly photocopied by lawyers associated with the Catholic Church and analyzed by a team of researchers. Their daring project--known as BNM for Brasil: Nunca Mais--compiled more than 2,700 pages of testimony by political prisoners documenting close to three hundred forms of torture. The BNM project proves conclusively that torture was an essential part of the military justice system and that judicial authorities were clearly aware of the use of torture to extract confessions. Still, it took more than a decade after the publication of Brasil: Nunca Mais for the armed forces to admit publicly that such torture had ever taken place. Torture in Brazil, the English version of the book re-edited here, serves as a timely reminder of the role of Brazil's military in past repression.

  • 0292704844
  • 9780292704848
  • Archdiocese of Sao Paulo
  • 1 January 1998
  • University of Texas Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 267
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