Word: boupacha
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Brutalities." Two days later the court reconvened to hear the case of doe-eyed Djamila Boupacha, 22, a non-Communist government typist accused of placing a bomb (which did not go off) in an Algiers cafe last September. Djamila herself has filed countercharges that police and paratroopers tortured her. "I was taken to Hussein Dey," she charged. "This was, I was told, for the 'second degree' treatment. I soon learned what it meant: electricity torture. Since the electrodes placed on my nipples would not hold, one of the torturers stuck them on with Scotch tape...
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