Reconstructing atrocity: How torturers, murderers, and researchers deconstruct labels and manage secrecy

Human Rights Review

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 50-70

  Huggins, Martha ^a  

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EID: 84857560076     PISSN: 15248879     EISSN: 18746306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12142-000-1043-6     Document Type: Article

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1. I would like to thank Mika Haritos-Fatouros for collaborating in initial proposal production and in interviewing through a translator three perpetrators, and for her support during this research on Brazilian torturers and murderers. Karen Brison and David Hess provided invaluable direction at several points in this analysis. I wish to thank as well Jan E Reemtsma of the Hamburger Stiftung for funding this study, Phil Zimbardo for encouragement, and Malcolm Willison for tirelessely editing many versions of the written document.
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