Word: dela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much. Task Force Detainees, a Philippine religious organization that investigates detentions, says that in 1985 there were 602 disappearances, 1,326 cases of torture and 276 political executions. Last week newly freed prisoners gave chilling accounts of confinement in Marcos' jails. "I experienced kicking, boxing and mauling," said Danilo dela Fuente, 36, a labor organizer who was among the first to be released. "My head was banged against a concrete wall. They put a gun to my temple and played Russian roulette. They put it in my mouth and twisted it. Once I was blindfolded for 17 hours, and they...
Most sinister of the secret-police operatives are the shadowy assassins and terrorists whose specialty is mokrie dela (wet affairs), from the so-called Department V, the KGB's Executive Action Department. I had naively assumed that political murders, kidnapings, sabotage targeted against Western civilian sectors had been pretty much abandoned by the U.S.S.R. by the mid-1950s, after the Stalin-Beria era. I was wrong. I met some of those operatives when I first lived in New York as a junior diplomat...