Portugal gets harsh blast from the past
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A young couple looks at the names of Portuguese soldiers killed in the colonial wars in Africa at a monument to the fallen in Lisbon Nov. 24 2007. A groundbreaking television documentary series currently being aired is confronting Portugal with unsettling aspects of its recent history. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
AP - The heads of enemy soldiers impaled on roadside trees. Hundreds of prisoners tortured, killed and dumped in mass graves. Napalm dropped on jungles where guerrillas sheltered, and grass-hut villages torched with cigarette lighters. |
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