Torture
"Violence is always inevitable, when you turn a
human into a thing" - Jean Kilbourne, 1987
Reproduced with
permission from
Clay
Bennett
Websites
Publications
18 USC Sec. 2340A, 01/05/99
"Whoever outside the United States commits or attempts to commit
torture shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or
both..."
http://www.capdefnet.org/fdprc/contents/fed_cap_off/18_usc_2340A.htm
18 USC, Sec. 2340(1)
(1) "torture" means an act committed by a person acting under the
color of law specifically intended
to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or
suffering incidental to lawful
sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;
(2) "severe mental pain or suffering" means the
prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from
(A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of
severe physical pain or suffering;
(B) the administration or application, or threatened
administration or application, of
mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to
disrupt profoundly the senses or the
personality;
(C) the threat of imminent death; or
(D) the threat that another person will imminently be
subjected to death, severe physical pain or
suffering, or the administration or application of
mind-altering substances or other procedures
calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality...
http://www.capdefnet.org/fdprc/contents/shared_files/titles/18_usc_2340.htm
1990 U.S.
reservations, declarations, and understandings, Convention Against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Section II: "...an act must be specifically intended to inflict severe
physical or mental pain or suffering."
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/usdocs/tortres.html
1998 Public Law
105-320 - Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998
Sections 2 and 3 define torture as "the deliberate mental and physical
damage caused by governments to individuals to destroy individual personality
and terrorize society..includes the use of rape and other forms of sexual
violence by a person acting under the color of law upon another person under his
custody or physical control." Unfortunately, this relief act does not
provide aid for individuals who are tortured within the United States.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-in/getdoc.cgi?dbname=105_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ320.105
2003 Public Law
108:21 - Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the
Exploitation of Children Today Act
Title 1, Section 102 of P. L. 108:21 specifies that a person will receive the
death penalty if convicted of a crime that was committed at the offender's age
16 or older, in which the offender abuses a child, and the child dies, or
tortures a child, and the child dies. An added stipulation is that the child
must have been in the offender's care or control at the time of the murder.
Further, the murder can also have been "perpetrated as part of a pattern or
practice of assault or torture against [the] child or children," meaning
that the "assault or torture [has been] engaged in on at least two
occasions." Torture is defined in 18 USC, Sect. 2340(1) - see above. Note
to ritual abuse survivors: the death penalty does not apply if the person
held responsible was coerced
into performing an illegal act.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ021.108.pdf
About Torture by Amnesty
International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/about.html
African-American Holocaust
The pictures on this website are extremely graphic and disturbing. It is a
powerful testimony to the historical reality of organized sadism in America, as
perpetrated against African Americans. As you view the graphic photos, please keep in mind that today, as in the
past, the attention of covert mob sadistic abuse and ritualized torture seems to
focus itself on victims who are disempowered and/or easily
disbelieved, and are therefore not as likely to receive intervention.
http://www.maafa.org
Airliner said to fuel
CIA ghost jail system
Sydney Morning Herald/Agence France-Presse, 2/22/05
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/21/1108834730802.html
Air Torture: Flying
to Select Torture Chambers Around the World
Parody website by Amnesty International.
http://www.airtorture.com/site/c.gsJNK1PIJpH/b.1778901/k.BD42/Home/apps/ka/ct/contactcustom.asp
Amigos de los Sobrevivientes (Torture Survivors Network)
This network focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean. Support,
information, referrals, support with starting programs.
http://www.pacinfo.com/eugene/tsnet/index.html
Amnesty International Report Charges US is 'Safe Haven' for
Torturers Fleeing Justice.
2002 press release. "Eight years on, US has failed to
prosecute a single individual for torture."
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2002/usa04102002.html
Amnesty International's Report on the Abuses of Stun
Technology
Includes use and effects of stun guns and batons, taser guns, and stun
belts. May be triggering for some survivors.
http://www.amnesty-usa.org/usa/stungun2.html
Appendix: U.S. Criticisms of Mistreatment and
Torture Practices
Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/reports/2004/afghanistan0304/7.htm
Arming the Torturers: Electro-Shock Torture and the Spread of
Stun Technology
Amnesty International report, 1997
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGACT400011997?open&of=ENG-313
Association for the Prevention of Torture
"Founded 27 years ago, in 1977, by Jean-Jacques Gautier and
based in Geneva, Switzerland, the Association for the Prevention of Torture
(APT) is an independent non-governmental organisation working worldwide to
prevent torture and ill-treatment."
http://www.apt.ch/
'Bind, torture, kill'
murderer speaks of evil
Reuters/Sydney Morning Herald, 6/28/05
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/06/28/1119724606367.html
Captured in Utah,
Florida Couple Are Held in a Child Abuse Case
Associated Press/New York Times, 2/6/05
The link to this news article is about 1/2-way down the real estate web page.
http://realestate.tip-sheet.info/RE/real/south-florida-real-estate-school/index.php
The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)
"CVT works locally, nationally and internationally to heal the wounds of
torture on individuals, their families and their communities and to stop torture
worldwide."
http://www.cvt.org/main.php
Cheney oversaw
torture: former CIA director
11/18/05, Sydney Morning Herald/AFP
http://smh.com.au/news/world/cheney-oversaw-torture-former-cia-director/2005/11/18/1132016963907.html#
C.I.A. Interrogator's
Defense to Cite Bush at Brutality Trial by Scott Shane
2/11/05, New York Times
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021105J.shtml
CIA Official: "If You Don't Violate
Someone's Human Rights, You Probably Aren't Doing Your Job": On the
Necessity of Torture by Mark Engler
Counterpunch, May 11, 2004
http://www.counterpunch.org/engler05112004.html
Convicted killer blamed for Atlanta child murders seeks new
trial
2/24/04. "The man blamed for killing 24 young Atlanta blacks wants a
new trial based on his claims that members of the Ku Klux Klan were responsible
for the deaths and that evidence used against him was
unreliable."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/02/24/national
1810EST0837.DTL
Cops Could Shoot
Lasers by Elisa Batista, 12/4/00, Wired News
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,40494,00.html
Cruel and Unusual Punishment by William F.
Shulz
New
York Review of Books. In-depth analysis of the unethical use of electroshock devices and their effects
on victims.
http://www.amnesty-usa.org/usa/stuntech.html
Cruel Science: The Long Shadow of CIA Torture
Research by Alfred W. McCoy
Counterpunch, May 29/31, 2004
http://www.counterpunch.org/mccoy05292004.html
D&D Security Products - Stun Guns
Explains how stun guns are used, and some of their effects on victims.
Many torture victims have been controlled, and their memories electrically
fragmented, by perpetrators who use stun devices - particularly stun guns.
http://www.ddsp.com/
Dark Legacy: Human Rights Under the Marcos Regime
by Al McCoy
Excerpts from Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine
Military Academy. McCoy is Professor of History at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison.
http://csf.colorado.edu/labor-rap/current-discussion/msg00260.html
Deaths prompt
concerns, reviews on use of stun guns by Kevin Johnson
USA Today, 2/16/05
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-02-15-stun-guns_x.htm
Decoupling neural
networks from reality: Dissociative experiences in torture victims are reflected
in abnormal brain waves in left frontal cortex by William J. Ray, Michael
Odenwald, Frank Neuner, Maggie Schauer, Martina Ruf, et al
Psychological Science, vol. 17, Issue 10
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/ps/17_10.cfm
Denounce Torture:
Stop It Now!
Amnesty International USA
http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/denounce_torture.html
Department of medical history - History of
medical involvement in torture -- then and now by Giovanni Maio
Article published in Lancet,
2001, 357:1609-11.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol1357/iss9268/full/llan.357.9268.editorial_and
_review.16316.1
Deprived of Freedom
ICRC report
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/Siteeng0.nsf/iwpList265/B462B98285B30773C1256C7
9004D4EE7
Detainee Says He Was
Tortured While in U.S. Custody by Raymond Bonner
New York Times, 2/13/05
"The physical abuse, he said, ranged from a kick 'that nearly killed me' to
electric shocks administered through a wired helmet that he said interrogators
told him could detect whether he was lying."
http://www.nytimes.com
"Diplomatic
Assurances" Allowing Torture: Growing Trend Defies International Law
Human Rights Watch, 4/15/05
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/04/15/eu10479_txt.htm
Doctors and
Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay by M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D., and Jonathan
H. Marks, M.A., B.C.L.
New England Journal of Medicine, 7/7/05
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/NEJMp058145v1.pdf
Electric shock weapons could go wireless by David
Hambling
New Scientist.com, May 21, 2003
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99993749
Emotional Reactions
To Torture And Organized State Violence by Stuart Turner, MD
PTSD Research Quarterly, Vol. 15, #2, Spring 2004
http://www.ncptsd.org
Examples of Torture or other Cruel, Inhuman,
or Degrading Treatment Condemned in the U.S. State Department's 2003 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices
Human Rights Watch report, June
2004
http://hrw.org/campaigns/torture/methods/stress_duress.htm
Face to face with torture
ICRC, 6/11/02
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList265/D4274CE092945620C1256B
DB003947D0
Fact Sheet No. 17, the Committee against
Torture
U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs17.htm
Feedback on the Panel
Presentation - United Nations 48th Commission on the Status of Women
Information about the presentations made by Randall D. Marshall, M.D.,
Jeanne Sarson, RN, BSCN, MEd., Linda MacDonald, RN, BN, MEd., Dana Raphael,
Ph.D., Jeanette Westbrook, MSSW, CSW, and Helen McGonigle, Attorney at Law on
March 8, 2004 during a panel discussion, "The Many Faces of Torture,"
at the UN in New York City.
http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/un.htm
Global Torture Ban
Under Threat: Governments Cannot Hide Behind the Fig Leaf of Diplomatic
Assurances
Human Rights Watch, 5/12/05
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/05/12/eca10661_txt.htm
Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda
Interrogations by James Risen, David Johnston and Neil A. Lewis,
New York
Times, 5/13/04
http://www.nytimes.com
History of medical
involvement in torture - then and now by Giovanni Maio, PD
Published in Lancet 2001; 357:1609-11.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/journal.isa
Hot Shot: Power Mite Prod
This small device, and others like it, are used to easily mark the
bodies of certain victims so that they are identifiable to other perpetrators
who can identify the markings by their shape, size, and the distance between the
prod marks. Some victims have these pairs of markings on their faces and
necks.
http://www.hotshotproducts.com/pm.htm
Inside the Cells of Abu Ghraib: The CIA
Privatized Torture by Kurt Nimmo
Counterpunch, May 4, 2004
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo05042004.html
Iraq Tactics Have Long History With U.S.
Interrogators by Walter Pincus
Washington Post, June 13, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37340-2004Jun12?language=printer
Justice Dept. Memo Says Torture 'May Be
Justified' by Dana Priest
Washington Post, 6/13/04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38894-2004Jun13?language=printer
Justice Expands
"Torture" Definition: Earlier Policy Drew Criticism by R. Jeffrey
Smith and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, 12/31/04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37687-2004Dec30?language=printer
The Legal Prohibition Against Torture,
Human
Rights Watch report, updated June 1, 2004
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/11/TortureQandA.htm
Maximum pain is aim
of new US weapon by David Hambling, 3/5/05, New Scientist
"The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of
excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against
rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain researchers are furious
that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they
fear that the technology will be used for torture."
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18524894.500
Memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to
the President, Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under 18 U.S.C. §§
2340-2340A
August 1, 2002
http://www.comw.org/warreport/fulltext/0208dojtorturememo.pdf
Memos shed new light on prisoner treatment
Sydney Morning Herald, 6/23/04
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/23/1087845000562.html
North American Freedom Foundation (NAFF)
Advocating for freedom from mind control, slavery, torture, and terror in
the United States and Canada.
http://naffoundation.org
OMCT (World Organization Against Torture)
http://www.omct.org/
People Against Child
Torture and Trafficking Alliance (PACTTA)
"PACTTA is an alliance of professionals, supporters and survivors who
actively stand against child torture and trafficking in Australia and
globally."
http://www.pactta.org
The Phoenix Program, Revisited: ABCs of American
Interrogation Method by Douglas Valentine
Counterpunch, May 15/16, 2004
http://www.counterpunch.org/valentine05152004.html
Poll: Americans Nix Torture
Youth Activism: Amnesty International, USA
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/Newsletter/index.asp?nlid=33&nlaid=145
Presidential Statement on Torture Victims Relief Act
President Clinton, October 30, 1998. "Today I am pleased to sign into
law H.R. 4309, the 'Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998.' This act
authorizes continued and expanded U.S. contributions to treatment centers, both
in the United States and around the world, for persons who suffer from the
mental and physical anguish of having been tortured."
http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/legacy/103098-presidential-statement-on-torture-
victims-relief-act.htm
Preventing Torture and other Ill-Treatment in
U.S. Military and Intelligence Detention Facilities
Human Rights Watch
report, June, 2004
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/09/usint8788.htm
Priest charged with killing put on leave;
review set for claims by David Yonke
Toledo Blade, 4/28/04
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040428/NEWS03/
404280366
Rader Pleads Guilty
to 10 Murders: BTK Defendant Coolly Describes the Killings That Terrorized
Wichita by Peter Slevin
Washington Post, 6/28/05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062700087_pf.html
Rancid from Top to Bottom: Green Lights for
Torture by Alexander Cockburn
Counterpunch, May 15/16, 2004
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05152004.html
REDRESS
"Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors...London based,
internationally focused, non-profit legal/human rights organisation."
http://www.redress.org/
The Roots of Torture by John Barry, Michael Hirsh and
Michael Talkoff
Newsweek World News, May 24, 2004
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4989422/site/newsweek/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4989436/site/newsweek/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4989438/site/newsweek/
Senior US Officials Cozy up to Dictator Who Boils People
Alive
"Independent human rights groups estimate that there are more than 600
politically motivated arrests a year in Uzbekistan, and 6,500 political
prisoners, some tortured to death. According to a forensic report
commissioned by the British embassy...two prisoners were even boiled to
death...This page lists all US dignitaries who have visited
Uzbekistan...Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov visited the US in March 2002,
where he was warmly greeted by President Bush and Rumsfeld."
http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/us-and-uz.htm
Sheriff revises department's
policy on use of stun guns by Lateef Mungin
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 6/2/05
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/gwinnett/0605/02taser.html
SOA Watch/NE
"Educates the public and Congress about the atrocities committed by
graduates of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA)...located at Ft.
Benning, Georgia...was recently renamed 'The Western Hemisphere Institute for
Security Cooperation'. Many of its graduates have been responsible for
some of the worst human rights violations in our hemisphere."
http://www.soaw.org/new/
Stop Torture
Information about torture by Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/index.do
Stress and Duress' Techniques Used Worldwide
Human
Rights Watch report, June 1, 2004
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/01/usint8632.htm
The struggle against torture by Walter Kalin
International
Review of the Red Cross, 9/3/98
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList265/1F8493053DA4F105C1256
B66005C43BC
Sweeping stun guns to target crowds by David Hambling
NewScientist.com, June 16, 2004
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99996014
Taser International, Inc.
http://www.taser.com/
Therapy, Ethics, Malpractice, Forensics, Critical Thinking
(and a few other topics)
Includes published articles on memory recovery and working with torture
victims.
http://www.kspope.com/index.php
Time to speak up about torture
by Molly Ivins, 12/2/04
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/ivins/story/11633116p-12522599c.html
Torture
Amnesty International USA Issue Brief,
January 2003
http://www.amnestyusa.org/waronterror/ib_torture.html
Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Committee (TASSC)
http://tassc.org
Torture, American Style by Bob
Herbert
New York Times, 2/11/05
http://www.phr.org.il/phr/article.asp?articleid=85&catid=43&pcat=0
Torture and its consequences by Hernan Reyes, M.D.
ICRC,
1/1/95
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList265/BE6DCE62B830816BC1256
B66005A00A0
Torture as Normalcy: As American as Apple Pie by
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
Counterpunch, May 8/9, 2004
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05082004.html
Torture FOIA
American Civil Liberties Union, 3/7/05
"Government Documents on Torture Freedom of Information Act...documents the
government did not want the public to read..."
http://www.aclu.org/International/International.cfm?ID=13962&c=36
Torture Guidelines
Washington Post,
6/14/04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34995-2004Jun11?language=printer
Torture Not an Option: Human Rights Watch Issues
Backgrounder
November 20, 2001
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/11/torture1120.htm
Torture on the Homefront: America's Long History of Prison
Abuse by Christopher Reed
Counterpunch, May 11, 2004
http://www.counterpunch.org/reed05112004.html
Torture Tales May Alter Holocaust History by Larry
Neumeister
Associated Press, 1/26/04
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/7795985.htm?template=content
Modules/printstory.jsp
Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998, Pub.
L. 105-320
This law approves funding for agencies that help torture victims in
other countries, but not in the United States.
http://uscis.gov/lpBin/lpext.dll/inserts/publaw/publaw-18936?f=templates&fn=document-frame.htm
Tortured Logic: Thumbscrewing International Law
Amnesty
Now Magazine, Summer 2003
http://www.amnestyusa.org/amnestynow/tortured.html
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Website
"The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up by
the Government of National Unity to help deal with what happened under
apartheid. The conflict during this period resulted in violence and human rights
abuses from all sides. No section of society escaped these abuses."
Because that government granted amnesty to some of the perpetrators who had
harmed and abused the rights of fellow citizens - including torture - more of
the truth was made public, than would have otherwise been admitted by the
perpetrators.
http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/
A UK diplomat says Britain is part
of a worldwide torture plot. Is he telling the truth? by Raymond Whitaker,
2/20/05, The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=612865
United Nations' 1948 Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
See Article 5: "...no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
United Nations' 1989 Convention on
the Rights of the Child
See Articles 19 and 37
Article 19, part 1: "States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative,
administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all
forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent
treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the
care of parent(s), legal guardians(s), or any other person who has the care of
the child."
Article 37, part (a):"No child shall be subjected to torture or other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
Unfortunately, the United States is one of the only two remaining States Parties
(members of the UN) that have refused to ratify this Convention.
http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/UN-convention/
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: Committee Against Torture
Extensive documentation about torture.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cat/cat-page.html
Uruguay 1964 to 1970 - Torture - As American as Apple Pie by William
Blum.
Chapter from Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since
World War II.
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/uruguay.htm
US Behind Secret Transfer of Terror Suspects by Rajiv
Chandrasekaran and Peter Finn
Washington Post, March 11, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5564-2002Mar10.html
US Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations: 'Stress and
Duress' Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas Facilities
by Dana Priest and Barton Gellman
Washington Post, December 26, 2002. "Those who refuse to cooperate inside this secret CIA interrogation center
are sometimes kept standing or kneeling for hours, in black hoods or
spray-painted goggles, according to intelligence specialists familiar with CIA
interrogation methods. At times they are held in awkward, painful positions and
deprived of sleep with a 24-hour bombardment of lights--subject to what are
known as 'stress and duress' techniques."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37943-
2002Dec25¬Found=true
US Exports $20 million of Shackles, Electro-Shock
Technology Expanding Global Trade Supplies States US Condemned for Torture
Amnesty International, December 2, 2003
http://www.amnestyusa.org/uspolicy/document.do?id=F7CE0B13E65E100085256
DF00050B882
U.S. State Laws restrict use of
electronic and/or electromagnetic weapons
Maine: Chapter 264, H.P. 868 - L.D. 1271 http://janus.state.me.us/legis/ros/lom/lom122nd/7pub251%2D300/pub251%2D300%2D22.htm
Massachusetts: Chapter 170 of the Acts of 2004 http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/seslaw04/sl040170.htm
Michigan: 2003-0256 http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=PublicActs
US looks away as new ally tortures Islamists: Uzbekistan's
president steps up repression of opponents by Nick Paton Walsh
The
Guardian, 5/26/03.
"The US is funding those it once condemned. Last year Washington gave
Uzbekistan $500m...in aid. The police and intelligence services - which
the state department's website says use "torture as a routine investigation
technique" received $79m of this sum."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,963497,00.html
US police slammed for stun guns on
kids
Sydney Morning Herald, 11/16/04
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/11/16/1100384543478.html
U.S. Recruits a Rough Ally to Be a
Jailer by Don Van Natta Jr.
New York Times, 5/1/05
"Now there is growing evidence that the United States has sent terror
suspects to Uzbekistan for detention and interrogation, even as Uzbekistan's
treatment of its own prisoners continues to earn it admonishments from around
the world, including from the State Department."
http://www.nytimes.com
US sends suspects to face torture by Duncan Campbell
Guardian
Unlimited, 3/12/02. "The US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida
connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal, according
to US diplomatic and intelligence sources."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4372442,00.html
U.S. Tells U.N. It Remains Opposed
to Torture, Abuse by Colum Lynch
Washington Post, 5/7/05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/06/AR2005050601358_pf.html
Visiting people deprived of their freedom: Combating
torture and ill treatment
ICRC report.
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList265/0509D0D044E73C7EC1256
B6600600E26
Visits to Prisoners and Documentation of Torture by
Hernan Reyes
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/Siteeng0.nsf/iwpList265/E842974FB4CBB689C1256
BCD003482E3
What Does a Torturer Tell His Kids? by Richard Thieme
AlterNet,
10/23/02.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14367
Wholesale Security.US
Detailed information about stun devices that are unfortunately used by some
perpetrators to control and torture victims, and fragment or block out their
memories of certain events.
http://www.wholesalesecurity.us/stungun.htm
Within C.I.A., Worry of
Prosecution for Conduct by Douglas Jehl and David Johnston, 2/27/05, New
York Times
"There is widening unease within the Central Intelligence Agency over the
possibility that career officers could be prosecuted or otherwise punished for
their conduct during interrogations and detentions of terrorism suspects,
according to current and former government officials."
http://www.nytimes.com
Worldwide Torture Plot: A UK
diplomat says Britain is part of a worldwide torture plot. Is he telling the
truth?
The Independent, 2/20/05.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=612865
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Caution: we strongly advise trauma survivors, who have
problems with amnesia and/or memory gaps, not to read other survivors'
personal stories, to avoid possible memory contamination and
confusion.
A Question of Torture: CIA
Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Alfred McCoy
Metropolitan Books, 2006. Hardback. ISBN 0805080414.
http://www.amazon.com
The Atrocity
Paradigm: A Theory of Evil by Claudia Card
Oxford University Press, 2002.
Hardback. ISBN 0195145089. "Atrocities deserve more attention than secular
philosophers have so far paid them. They are distinguished from ordinary wrongs
not by the psychological states of evildoers but by the seriousness of the harm
that is done." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195145089/ref=sid_dp_dp/104-4365533-6323115?
%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
At the Side of Torture Survivors: Treating a Terrible Assault
on Human Dignity by Sepp Graessner (Editor), Norbert Gurris (Editor),
Christian Pross (Editor), Jeremiah Michael Riemer (Translator), and Desmond
Mpilo Tutu
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Hardback. ISBN 0801866278.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/345/17/1284-a
The Body in Pain: The
Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry
Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0195049969. Paperback.
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Pain-Making-Unmaking-World/dp/0195049969
The Breaking of Bodies and Minds:
Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions edited by Eric Stover
and Elena O. Nightingale, MD
W. H. Freeman and Co., 1985. Paperback.
ISBN 0-7167-1733-6.
http://shr.aaas.org/pubs/detail.php?p_id=48
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage
to Survive by David Pelzer
Health Communications, 1995. Paperback. ISBN 1558743669.
Story of a boy raised in a family in which he was the one child singled out for
long-term maternal sadistic abuse and neglect.
http://www.davepelzer.com/aboutb.htm
Combatting Torture: A Manual for Action
https://secure3.ctsg.com/amnestyusa/store/viewProduct.asp?cookietest=1&From=%2Famnestyusa%
2Fstore%2FviewProduct%2Easp&Product=113&CategoryName=Books&CategoryId=2
The Hidden Crimes...Children: Torture, Summary
Executions, Disappearances compiled by Yalile Rovira-Figueroa
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), PO Box 21, 8 rue du
Vieux-Billard, 1211 - Geneva 8, Switzerland.
http://www.omct.org.
The Instruments of
Torture by Michael Kerrigan
Lyons Press, 2001. Paperback. ISBN 1-58574-247-3. "...looks at the
techniques and tools used in torture, ranging from the earliest known historical
instances of the practice right up to the present time and covering practices
used throughout the world." Includes photos and drawings. Caution:may be
extremely triggering for torture survivors.
http://www.lyonspress.com
The Mental Health
Consequences of Torture, Ellen Gerrity, Terence M. Keane and Farris Tuma,
Editors
Springer, 2005. Hardback. ISBN 0306464225.
http://www.amazon.com/Mental-Health-Consequences-Torture-Springer/dp/0306464225/ref=sr_1_1/
002-8839239-4929653?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179434063&sr=8-1
Sadistic Abuse: Definition, Recognition, and Treatment
by Jean M. Goodwin, MD, MPH.
Article explains sadism and offers a basic plan of recovery from sadistic abuse. To
obtain reprint, send request to Dr. Goodwin at the University of Texas Medical
Branch, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Galveston TX
77555-0428.
The Sadomasochism of Everyday Life: Why We
Hurt Ourselves - and Others - and How to Stop by John Munder Ross, Ph.D
Simon and Schuster, 1997. Hardback. ISBN 0-684-81049-2.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684810492/002-3979644-2298422?
v=glance
Tax-Funded Torture of
Children Behavioral and Medical experimentation Programs - 1945 to the Present
by Lynn Schirmer
Printable tri-fold pamphlet.
http://www.lynnsart.net/pdfs/pamphlet3.pdf
They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of a
Child who Learned to Survive by Jennings Michael Burch
Signet, 1988. Paperback. ISBN 0-451-15941-1.
http://www.poetry-reviews.com/They_Cage_the_Animals_at_Night_0451159411.html
Torture: A
Collection. Sanford Levinson, Editor
Oxford University Press, 2004.
Hardback. ISBN 0195172892. "One important question is how we define torture
at all. Are 'cruel and inhumane' practices that result in profound physical or
mental discomfort tolerable so long as they do not meet some definition of
'torture'? And how much 'transparency' do we really want with regard to
interrogation practices? Is 'don't ask, don't tell' an acceptable response to
those who concern themselves about these practices...noted contributors include
noted Ariel Dorfman, Elaine Scarry, Alan Dershowitz, Judge Richard Posner,
Michael Walzer, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and other lawyers from both the United
States and abroad."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195172892/ref=pd_sim_b_3/104-4365533-6323115?%
5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Torture:
A Human Rights Perspective. Edited by Kenneth Roth and Minky Worden
"A timely and provocative new
anthology...the first book to critically assess torture from a global human
rights viewpoint." Available through Human Rights Watch. For more
information, go to http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/10/13/global11871.htm.
The Torture Debate in
America, Karen J. Greenberg, Editor
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Paperback. ISBN 0521674611. "...captures the arguments on torture that have
been put forth by legislators, human rights activists, and others. It raises the
key moral, legal, and historical questions that have led to current
considerations on the use of torture. Divided into three sections, the
contributions cover all sides of the debate, from absolute prohibition of
torture to its use as a viable option in the War on Terror." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521674611/qid=1130612925/
sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4365533-6323115?v=glance&s=books
Torture: Expanded
Edition by Edward Peters
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Paperback. ISBN 0812215990.
http://www.amazon.com
Truth, Torture, and
the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture
by Jennifer K. Harbury
Beacon Press, 2005. Paperback. ISBN 0807003077.
"Jennifer Harbury's investigation into torture began when her husband
disappeared in Guatemala in 1992; she told the story of his torture and murder
in Searching for Everardo. For over a decade since, Harbury has used her
formidable legal, research, and organizing skills to press for the U.S.
government's disclosure of America's involvement in harrowing abuses in Latin
America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. A draft of this book had just been
completed when the first photos from Abu Ghraib were published; tragically, many
of Harbury's deepest fears about America's own abuses were graphically confirmed
by those horrific images."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807003077/ref=pd_sim_b_5/
104-4365533-6323115?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Unshackled: A Survivor's Story of Mind Control by
Kathleen Sullivan
Dandelion Books, 2004. Paperback. ISBN 1-893302-35-0. "A
non-fictional account of Kathleen Sullivan's experiences as part of a criminal
network that includes Intelligence personnel, military personnel, doctors and
mental health professionals contracted by the military and the CIA, criminal
cult leaders and members, pedophiles, pornographers, drug dealers and
Nazis."
http://www.booksurge.com/author.php3?accountID=DAND00035&affiliateID=A000246
Unspeakable
Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture by John Conroy
University of
California Press, 2001. Paperback. ISBN 0520230396. "How is it that
otherwise normal people can become part of the institutionalized practice of
torture? That's the question driving this unusual, extremely well-reported book.
At the Chicago Reader, Conroy spent years reporting on the kind of torture that
happens not in exotic locales but in his own backyard--in Chicago's police
precincts. Curious and troubled by what he found, he decided to explore the
ordinariness of brutality through three separate incidents of torture--in
Israel, Ireland and Chicago."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520230396/ref=pd_sim_b_6/
104-4365533-6323115?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
Voices of Truth:
An Anthology by Survivors of Ritual Abuse. Edited by Gentlewinds.
2005. PDF. All profits are being donated to
Survivorship.
http://www.lulu.com/content/169247
When Rabbit Howls by Truddi
Chase
Jove Books, 1987. Paperback. ISBN 0-515-10329-2. A
"journey through the fragmented world of the multiple personality...now a
woman and her therapist journey back to the unspeakable crimes she suffered, to
discover where the nightmare began."
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?endeca=1&isbn=0515103292&itm=8
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