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See: badger, cruelty, endanger, inflict, infliction, irritate, mistreat, pique, plague, prey, punish TORTURE, punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed
criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their
associates.
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| Worthy of note is that the perpetrators of state torture as documented by victims of torture [4] have been largely NIF supporters who, for the most part, included security officers indoctrinated with the NIF anti-Islamic, anti-ethical, and anti-democratic thought. Margaret Randall was the only initial participant who, in her vigorous elaboration of shared territory between state torture and domestic abuse in the politics of memory, refused this arbitrary drawing of terrorism's boundaries. Since 1914, state torture and persecution have returned on a far larger scale than the old optimistic liberalism would have believed possible. |
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