Introduction -- Prologue: The wheel turns in Nigeria -- 1. Guatemala -- 'only political killings' -- 2. Bokassa, the dead children and the lessons unlearnt -- 3. The Pinochet case -- 4. Amnesty's forty years -- 5. Northern Ireland -- Britain's dirty war -- 6. Amnesty's black mark -- the Baader-Meinhof Gang -- 7. Amnesty's success stories -- 8. China -- from better to worse? -- 9. The USA -- land of the free? -- 10. Conclusion -- the world is a better place.
