The wounds and the traumas of the long-running conflict in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau are deep. In a certain way, the conflict is still regarded as something of a social taboo in Portugal. Nuno Tiago Pinto describes in this exclusive article written for PDV the experiences of two of the men whom he interviewed and who committed atrocities that have never let them sleep peacefully again. Recent portraits By Rafael G. Antunes