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Torture and Democracy
Darius Rejali

 
     
  March 13, 2008

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In his exhaustive study, Darius Rejali traces the history of torture through the ages. He concludes that most "clean" tortures that leave no marks were actually born in democracies, especially imperial Britain and France.
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