Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

by Leigh A. Payne

An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina's Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet's intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons. A Brazilian military officer draws on his own experiences to write a novel describing the military's involvement in a massacre during the 1970s. The head of a police death...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822340828
• ISBN13: 9780822340829
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 6.3"