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The fort nearby held political prisoners during the Salazar régime; now it’s a museum as well as a display area for local crafts and traditions.
And a majority, 54 percent, expressed strong or moderate support for the use of ground troops to end the conflict (83 percent supported sending soldiers to rescue any U.S. prisoners of war).
Initiatives in the deep South further restricted the rights of prisoners (who knew there were any restrictions left to impose?)
Those who will die, says the paper, include Chinese prisoners, Australian aborigines, immigrant laborers in the Middle East, Eastern European peasants, and South Korean sweatshop workers.
The newly created League of Nations debated, but failed to pass, treaties prohibiting the torture of prisoners and attacks on civilians.