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Branch's most powerful scenes are his unflinching descriptions of the horrors endured by hundreds of activists, from the "medieval privations of ," to barbaric beatings by , to the arson and murder committed by . When TV cameras covered events like these, the nation was riveted, but often these individual sacrifices went unnoticed by reporters swooning over King.
For years I have wanted to confront them about the beatings I took, my mother's drinking, and my dad's complete indifference.
The population suffered two bloody beatings under the Turks when the village was razed to the ground, and again in WWII.
City Sheriff's department is investigating the possibility that beatings of accused child molesters were allegedly encouraged by deputies working in the men's central jail and resulted in at least one homicide.
The authorities visit every horror upon the narrators--sexual assault, beatings, isolation, psychological torture--at which point the narrators harden.