Word: brazier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declares: "In the central police station at Belgrade, Jugoslavia, there is in regular use a brazier on which the bodies of prisoners from whom information is wanted are presented to the flames. . . . Needles are stuck into the tongues of suspects and red-hot pins are forced under their nails. . . . There is at hand a special machine designed to squeeze the head until the skull is fractured...