Teresa Margolles

A slab of pykrete

01Koevoet members received a cash bonus for each confirmed SWAPO guerrilla killed; body parts sometimes served as confirmation.
02The unit operated under the South African Police, not the military, deliberately shielding it from the Geneva Convention's oversight.
03Koevoet's kill-to-contact ratio was the highest of any counterinsurgency unit in the Namibian bush war — approximately 1,000 kills per year at peak.

Teresa Margolles humidified a gallery with vapor from water used to wash unclaimed murder victims at a Mexico City morgue. Visitors breathed it. She has also sewn with thread soaked in corpse fluid.