Im wondering, if this could be prevented by providing acountability across generations. If we where to store the names of torturing individuals - and generate a civilian resistance- by refusing to employ, buy and sell to those who engage in torture and everyone decending from them, pressure could be applied.

"Im not going to the prom with you, cause your father/grandfather was a torturer" - sounds like something that could hit home. And goverment seems to have escaped all (self)controll otherwise.