History of Torture

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20 Exemplary Cases - Photographs and text describing twenty cases of torture in Brazil between 1964 and 1980.
Ancient Peru Torture Deaths: Sacrifices or War Crimes? - National Geographic article investigating the shockingly brutal deaths of people living during the Moche civilization nearly two thousand years ago.
Crimes of Augusto Pinochet - Michael Neumann's collection of case studies of human rights violations committed by the former Chilean dictator.
Historical Torture Museum - Travelling exhibit featuring European instruments of torture and capital punishment from the Middle Ages to the present.
Infernal Device - Database of torture and execution devices and methods.
Law Enforcement in the Past - Devoted to the ways and means by which the laws where enforced in the past.
Pure Torture - Account of the suffering and perseverance of an American prisoner of war.
Stocks and Pillories
Vanished Gallery - Voices of the desaparecidos -- thousands of people who disappeared under the military dictatorship (1976-1983) including information about military Junta members and the Falklands War.
Web Directory: Torture History and Political Torture - Links mostly covering old torture equipment, the Inquisition, and witch hunting.

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