Effects Of Torture

The army also rob and burn down parts of the village. In one case, a young man who was part of the patrols is shot and as he laid dying, reveals that the uniform worn (in that particular day) by the army was similar to the ones the guerrillas would wear, except that the guerrillas didn’t cause any harm as they walk through the village. This has a lot to say about how the civilians saw the government’s military, and how they saw their repressive state; being something they had to do without question due to fear. Taking a look at the testimony alone, we can also see how society was effected. Out of Montejo’s brief background detailing the failures of the presidents and the absolute repression faced by the civilians, we can conclude that the governments force to keep the guerillas unsuccessful was limited and pushed society into rebellions. In other words, as the army continued to torture and persecute the innocent, many found it necessary to fall into the hands of the guerrillas in order to stamp out their oppression.

The War on Terror has produced several different viewpoints on the utilization of torture and its effectiveness as a means to elicit information. A main argument has been supplied that torture is ineffective in its purpose to gather information from the victim. The usefulness of torture has been questioned because prisoners might use false information to elude their torturers, which has occurred in previous cases of torture. It has also been supposed that torture is necessary in order to use the information to save many lives. Torture has been compared to civil disobedience. In addition, the argument has been raised that torture is immoral and inhumane. Lastly, Some say that the acts are not even regarded as torture.

During the 1970’s more and more protests and uprisings in the capital and the southwest part of the nation became very frequent, and overtime, very violent. The Peace Pledge Union expressed a dramatic and detailed example of the violent acts that the military of Guatemala practiced on Indian natives in search of subversives,

At seven o’ clock in the morning on December 11, 1981 an evil force entered the small El Salvadorian village of El Mezote (School of Assasins). With painted faces and army fatigues, the guerillas carried machine guns and automatic rifles into the peaceful village. As survivor Rufina Amaya recounts, “At ten o’clock the soldiers began to kill the men who were in the church. First, they machine-gunned them and slit their throats” (“Country Sheets for Close it Down Fast!” 3). After the men, the women were placed face down in the dusty streets and shot to

Current Event: According to The New York Times, On May 27, 2016 Argentina’s last dictator, and 14 other former military officials have been sentenced to prison for the disappearance of more than 100 people during the Operation Condor conspiracy to hunt down dissidents across South America. This all began in the 1970’s when six South American dictators started the Operation Condor and used their “secret police networks” to track down rivals who were across the borders. Many of the bodies of these victims have still not been found and the prosecutors continue to try and cover up the deaths today. The court sentenced the leader Reynaldo Bignone 20 years in prison and the other 14 received eight to 25 years. One of the many victims was Maria Claudia Irueta Goyena, who was the daughter-in-law of Argentine poet Juan Gelman. Maria was pregnant when she was kidnapped and held inside an auto shop for months before someone in the air force came and took her to Uruguay. After the birth of her daughter she went missing and then years later her daughter Macarena Gelman discovered her own identity. "Operation Condor affected my life, my family," Chilean Laura Elgueta told The Associated Press outside the court room. Her brother, Luis Elgueta, had taken refuge in Buenos Aires from Gen. Augusto Pinochet 's forces, only to be forcibly disappeared in Buenos Aires in 1976 as part of Operation Condor (The New York Times, 2016).

At birth, many families struggled to keep their children alive until adulthood. The countries poverty prevented people from feeding their children, leading to the malnutrition of thousands and the negative health effects that come with it. But even after reaching maturity the lives of people remain a struggle. Many women are forced to raise their children alone while struggling to provide a living for themselves and their offspring. Lack of education in Central America prevent men and women from finding work, making survival very difficult. Death squads murdered thousands of innocent lives in brutal ways. The human rights movement CO-MADRES was started to call out against the extreme lack of civil liberties. Other groups like the FMLN and the FPL fought against the government to stop the social injustices the Salvadorian government committed. The government needed to help eliminate the massive problem of poverty. But because it did not, guerrilla groups were formed by El Salvador’s people in hope to change what the government could not. By forming death squads in an attempt to stop those groups, the countries situation led only to more death and

During the peak of “corrective labor colonies”, each camp held around 2,000-10,000 inmates and consisted of people arrested at collectivization, anyone who opposed the Communist party, and many innocent victims who never committed any crimes (Gulag 1). The number of prisoners working in forced labor camps was extensive and continued to grow for many years,“The Gulag had a total inmate population of about 100,000 in the late 1920s when it underwent an enormous expansion coinciding with the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture. By 1936

In the first place, putting someone through the experience of being tortured can cause them to be left with long-term damage both physically and mentally. These victims are isolated from society and kept prisoners, the kind of torture they are often put through is unbearable. In the article, The Lingering Effects of Torture written by Devin Powell talks about a man by the alias Adeel who was a prisoner for four years, first at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo Bay. Adeel explains how he was kept isolated in a chilled cell, blasted with loud music which prevented him from falling asleep and being forced to stand motionless in the hot sun for hours. And how even years after being released he still

During the past Winter, impoverished peasants united in the streets demanding change. This natural gas productive country was depleting its resources by the minute. Only the educated few spoke against the tyranny. Located in the usually serene central region of Niyguenta, riots surrounded the Capital of Tenkita. However, the protesters were pushed back by the Regime's loyal and highly paid Military Guards with rounds of teargas, and fatal

Some people decided to go to the area of Chacao, a place where a lot of people were protesting. The idea was to reinforce the protest and to express the frustration felt hours before going.Fall afternoon, the Chacao area was turned into a field of battle. National Guard and National Police force against citizens, many people were arrested,about 20 detainees. I remember a group of women were protesting on the Francisco de Miranda Avenue because the arrests of other people; the PNB also attacked the group of women hitting them. Some of them were arrested too, one of these women arrested was a woman who had been early in the mass in honor of the fallen in February 2014, she was almost smothered by the tear gas and the smoke, while it was still

In 1929, at the command of the banana organizations, around 1,000 striking banana laborers and their families were slaughtered by Colombian troops. The political shakiness that took after still torments the South American country today, and is partly to blame for the uncontrolled fear based oppression and drug related wrongdoing that makes Colombia such an unsafe place. Comparable events, with comparative outcomes, happened in Honduras, Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and different nations in Central and South America in the vicinity of 1900 and the 1970s.

Painful combinations of various torture techniques can also ultimately damage the brain. An example of such a situation would be putting someone in a weak, powerless position in order to exalt the impacts of additional verbal threats while slowly unclothing them in order to enhance the humiliation of being threatened by angered German Shepherds. Neruoscientist, Bruce McEwen from Rockefeller University stated that “repeated moderately stressful experiences can physically alter structure that control fear and anxiety” (Pbs, 2014).It has been supported by specialists that the brain can evidently become conditioned by extreme fear from harmful stress experiences. This fear can lead to great damage to various systems. While some changes are reversible,

Innocent individual, minority and nation should not give up into torture, humiliation injustice and bullying. And they should hope and dreams of abolishing discrimination and slavery by raising their voice. The writer is saying African Americans and women are being mistreated by oppressors through writing. I know that because in the first two lines she said “You may write me down in history, With your bitter, twisted lies”. This quote shows how writing can destroys the minds of the oppressors by giving them false stories.

The latter part of this course, we read Kristen Weld’s book Paper Cadavers. This book captured the importance of the discovery of the Guatemalan archives. An intense amount of work was put into recovering approximately 80 million documents from the government after decades of internal warfare. This reconstruction of public memory was extremely important for those involved in recovering and sifting through the documents, the families and friends who lost people during the civil war, to Guatemala and the discovery also held significance international (Weld). A few years later in March of 2008 files were seized by the Colombian Armed Forced during a raid. These archives belonged to the insurgent group called The Revolutionary Armed Forced of Colombia People’s Army or FARC. The files belonged personally to “Raul Reyes” (a leader of FARC) who was killed during the raid along with 24 other insurgent members (Walser). This led to some controversy about the files later on. The Colombian Armed Forces handed over the archives to Interpol, so they could be decoded and analyzed. These two sets of documents are different discoveries of public memory that impacted lives as public memory was reconstructed. They exposed human rights violations through their (re)discovery and release to the public.

The new strife was known simply as La Violencia. Between 1948 and 1958, La Violencia took the lives of more than 300,000 Colombians” (Molano, 2000). During many years the Colombian