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Torture And Democracy By Darius Rejali

Posted at 6:41PM Wednesday 12 Mar 2008

Rejali spends a lot of time discussing and charting the spread of electro-torture, a dramatically modern method that leaves few traces. He finds that it was used in America in 1908, but its earliest routine users were the Japanese secret police, the Kempeitai, from 1931. Since it was around Indo-China, the French became expert at it at about the same time, and, like the Japanese, combined it with water tortures.

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