Description: 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. Jaime Wright lives in Vitoria, Brazil, where he serves as a spokesman for the BNM project. Joan Dassin, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, has long experience as a human rights advocate and scholar of Brazil.
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EAN: 9780292704848
UPC: 9780292704848
ISBN: 9780292704848
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Item Length: 21 cm
Item Weight: 0.25 kg
Number of Pages: 267 Pages
Publication Name: Torture in Brazil: A Shocking Report on the Pervasive Use of Torture by Brazilian Military Governments, 1964-1979, Secretly Prepared by the Archiodese of Sao Paulo
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Item Height: 210 mm
Subject: Government, Politics
Publication Year: 1998
Type: Textbook
Author: Archdiocese of Sao Paulo
Item Width: 140 mm
Series: Llilas Special Publications
Format: Paperback
