Report on Allegations of Torture in Brazil
Author: Amnesty International
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 112
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Author: Amnesty International
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joan Dassin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780292704848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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.
Author: James Cavallaro
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781564322111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolice torture in Brazil
Author: Amnesty International
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joanne Mariner
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781564321954
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Author: Prof. Martha K. Huggins
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-11-21
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780520928916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf 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 questions that haunt today's world: Why and how are ordinary men transformed into state torturers and murderers? How do atrocity perpetrators explain and justify their violence? What is the impact of their murderous deeds—on them, on their victims, and on society? What memories of their atrocities do they admit and which become public history?
Author: Nina Schneider
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-05-10
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1789200040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, practitioners, and human-rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. While attentive to the inquiry’s local and national dimensions, it offers an illuminating transnational perspective that considers the Commission’s Latin American regional context and relates it to global efforts for human rights accountability, contributing to a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of viewpoints.
Author: Patrick William Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-10
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1107163242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how Latin America was the crucible of the global human rights revolution of the 1970s.
Author: Karen Keilt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-04-16
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1631525727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Parrot’s Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age sixty, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York. The email sparks memories of her “previous life”—the one she has kept safely bottled up for more than thirty-seven years. Hopeful of helping to raise awareness about ongoing human rights violations in Brazil, she wants to testify, but she anguishes over reliving the horrific events of her youth. In the pages that follow, Keilt tells the story of her life in Brazil—from her exclusive, upper-class lifestyle and dreams of Olympic medals to her turmoil-filled youth. Full of hints of a dark oligarchy in Brazil, corruption, crime, and military interference, The Parrot’s Perch is a searing, sometimes shocking true tale of suffering, struggle—and survival. Karen Keilt lived through the darkest days of Brazil’s military dictatorship. In her courageous and compelling memoir, Keilt narrates an emotionally honest reckoning of her desire to find true happiness. Forbidden by her wealthy family to even mention her imprisonment, torture, and rape, Keilt is forced to make a change that will affect the rest of her life. Seen through her testimony to the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN, readers become witnesses to both her vulnerability and her quiet strength.
Author: Cesar Muñoz Acebes
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781646640027
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