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Torture

"Violence is always inevitable, when you turn a human into a thing" - Jean Kilbourne, 1987

"Tortured Logic" cartoon by Clay Bennett

 

 

 

Reproduced with 
permission from 
Clay Bennett


 

 

 

 

Websites        Publications

Websites

18 USC, Sec. 2340(1)
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 
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/usdocs/tortres.html 

1998 Public Law 105-320 - Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998
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
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
Caution: the pictures on this website are extremely graphic and disturbing.  
http://www.maafa.org 

Amnesty International's Report on the Abuses of Stun Technology
http://www.amnesty-usa.org/usa/stungun2.html 

Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT)
http://www.apt.ch/

The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)
http://www.cvt.org/main.php  

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 

Cruel and Unusual Punishment by William F. Shulz, New York Review of Books. 
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 
http://www.ddsp.com/ 

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, Lancet, 2001, 357:1609-11.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol1357/iss9268/full/llan.357.9268.editorial_and_review.16316.1 

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 

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 

Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon by David Hambling, 3/5/05, New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18524894.500 

North American Freedom Foundation (NAFF)
http://naffoundation.org 

OMCT (World Organization Against Torture)
http://www.omct.org/ 

People Against Child Torture and Trafficking Alliance (PACTTA)
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 

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/ 

SOA Watch/NE
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
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/01/usint8632.htm 

Taser International, Inc.
http://www.taser.com/

Therapy, Ethics, Malpractice, Forensics, Critical Thinking (and a few other topics)
http://www.kspope.com/index.php 

Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Committee (TASSC)
http://tassc.org 

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 FOIA, American Civil Liberties Union, 3/7/05
http://www.aclu.org/International/International.cfm?ID=13962&c=36 

Torture Tales May Alter Holocaust History by Larry Neumeister, AP, 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

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
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cat/cat-page.html 

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 police slammed for stun guns on kids 
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/11/16/1100384543478.html 

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 

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Publications

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.  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.  
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. 
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. 
Send request for reprint 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
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. 
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  
  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.  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.  
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. 
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. 
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.  
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?endeca=1&isbn=0515103292&itm=8

 


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Emergency contacts and resources 

SOUTHEAST
TENNESSEE

Catholic Charities of East Tennessee, Inc.
Chattanooga Office
Phone 423-267-1297 
Fax 423-265-4923

Children's 
Advocacy Centerof Hamilton County County
 
24-hour child abuse hotline: 
1-877-54-ABUSE

Domestic Violence
Resources

Focus Adolescent Services: Family Help in Tennessee
(410) 341-4342
(877) 362-8727

The Partnership
for Families,
Children and Adults
(Partnershipfca)

Family Violence 
Services Shelter

and Sexual Crisis & Resource Center
24-hour hotline:
(423) 755-2700

Survival Necessities Assistance

Tennessee Dept.
of Human Services

Child and elder abuse
24-hour hotline:
(423) 266-0162

USA 

Abuse Consultants
Suicide resource
page

Child Help USA
24-hour National
Child Abuse Hotline

1-800-422-4453

Cyber Tipline
To report child sexual exploitation
24-hour hotline: 1-800-843-5678

Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men
24-hour hotline:
1-877-643-1120, 
pin # 0757

Friends of Battered Women and Their Children
Counseling and legal
advocacy
24-hour hotline:
1-800-603-4357

Hot Peach
Pages - USA
State lists of agencies against domestic violence

KID SAVE
"Referrals to shelters, mental health services,
sexual abuse
treatment, substance abuse, family counseling,
residential care, adoption/foster care, etc."
24-hour helpline:
1-800-543-7283

National Center
for Missing and
Exploited
Children (NCMEC)

24-hour hotline
1-800-843-5678

National Center
on Elder Abuse

State Elder Abuse
Hotlines

National Family
Violence Helpline

24-hour hotlines:
National Child
Abuse Hotline

1-800-422-4453
National Domestic
Violence Hotline

1-800-799-7233 or
1-800-787-3244
(TTY)

Victims of elder abuse
1-800-879-6682

National Family
Violence Hotline

24-hour hotlines:
1-800- 221-2681  
1-800- 222-2000

National Runaway/ Adolescent Suicide Hotline
24-hour hotline:
1-800-621-4000

National Suicide Hotline
(Centerstone)
24-hour hotline:
1-800-SUICIDE
(1-800-784-2433)

National Youth
Crisis Hotline

"...for children and
youth who are
abused, suicidal, chemically dependent, depressed over family
or school problems, runaway or
abandoned."
24-hour hotline
1-800-442-4673

Prevent Suicide 
Do you feel you have tried everything, and nothing makes pain go away? Do you feel like your answer is suicide? Then please just take one minute and dial 1-800-SUICIDE 
(1-800-784-2433)

Rape, Abuse, &
Incest National
Network (RAINN)

24-hour hotline:
1-800-656-4673

SAFE (Self-Abuse
Finally Ends) Alternatives)
 

Provides Information;
not a crisis number
1-800-DONT-CUT
(1-800-366-8288)

Stop Abuse for
Everyone (SAFE)

Stop It Now!
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Helpline 
(office hours only)
1-888-773-8368

Suicide Prevention
24-hour hotlines

1-800-827-7571
1-800-784-2433

Virtual Global Task Force (VGT)
"...made up of police forces from around the world working together to fight online child abuse."


CANADA  

Abuse
Consultants

Suicide resources

Centre for Treatment of Sexual Abuse & Childhood Trauma
Serves Ottawa-Carleton 
613-233-4929

Hot Peach
Pages - Canada
  
Agencies against
domestic violence

Kids' Help Phone
National phone counselling svc. for children and youths
24-hour hotline
1-800-668-6868

Stop Abuse for
Everyone (SAFE)

Telecare Distress
Centre
Confidential 24-hour crisis and befriending phone support line:
(905) 459-7777
(Not toll-free)
Email address: telecare@on.aibn.com

Victims of Violence
For victims of violent crime - Ottawa, Ontario
(613) 233-0052
vofv@victimsofviolence.
on.ca

Virtual Global Task Force (VGT)
"...made up of police forces from around the world working together to fight online child abuse."

Many more helpful contacts are listed on NAFF's Recovery Resources and More Resources  web pages.

 

Every day around the world, and even here in the United States, children are sold into virtual slavery or traffic for the worst forms of sexual abuse -  President Bill Clinton, U.N. Protocol Orders Signing Ceremony July 5, 2000.

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