Sentence examples for former torturer from inspiring English sources

In one of the most traumatic moments of the commission hearings, in 1997 MP Tony Yengeni confronted his former torturer Jeff Benzien and demanded that Benzien demonstrate the "wet bag" torture method he had used on him.

In Route Irish the audience is initially inclined, indeed invited, to think that a former torturer being waterboarded is getting the treatment he deserves.

A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert's late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans.

Heinrich's grandson is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert's late wife returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans.

This is one of the most satisfying strands of a many-pronged tale, the account of Jamie's brother Scott being "turned" by the son of his former torturer being another.

And the sheer worthiness of a topic, even torture and political imprisonment under the Duvalier regimes in Haiti, will take a novel only so far.After introducing her former torturer and reformed family man, Edwidge Danticat circles her subject by sampling the lives of a sequence of expatriate Haitians who have suffered at "the dew breaker's" hands.

The country faces the problem of what to do with the former torturers.

Former torturers were driven from cities and warned never to return.

The courage, dignity and patience of this man when, in the film, he confronts former torturers, "the ordinary and obscure journeymen of the genocide", as Panh calls them, is unforgettable.

Almost all of them have offered victims a chance to confront their former torturers face to face, to test their instincts, to balance the desire for revenge against the will to make Libya into something more than a madman's playground.

Almost uniquely among nations that have suffered mass killings under brutal dictatorships, Argentina was able not only to put a large number of its former torturers behind bars, but to establish a consensus across all political sectors that its 1976-83 militaregimeime had executed a lower-intensity Nazi-style genocide that lacked any moral justification.