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Government by Torture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2018
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I hate all violence, but most intensely I hate the violence inflicted by an all-powerful establishment on a helpless individual. The thought of a man or woman alone in a secret cell facing the fiendish horrors of ingenious and remorseless torture is utterly revolting. I can think of no evil to equal it. It should by now be a crime completely outlawed, but instead it spreads like an epidemic disease.
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Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 93rd Congress, second session, July 23, 1974.
Bulletin, Amnesty International Canada (January, 1975).
Amnesty International library, London Secretariat.
Report on Allegations of Torture in Brazil, Amnesty International (1972).
Report on Torture, Amnesty International (1974).
Hearings of the Subcommittee on Western Hemispheric Affairs, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, May, 1971. Cited in Report on Allegations of Torture in Brazil.
Hostages of War, by Holmes Brown and Don Luce (1973).
Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths tn Fact and Propaganda, by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman (1973).
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