Rat Torture Method Poem by Sophie Allyah

Rat torture is the use of rats to torture a victim by encouraging them to attack and eat the victim alive. Rat torture was used by several South American military dictatorships: in Brazil during the military regime of 1964-1985, in Uruguay during the civic-military dictatorship of 1973-1985, in Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) , and in Argentina during the period of the National Reorganization Process (1976-1983) .