Torture

“The first jolt was so bad I just wanted to die”
Gloria Esperanza Reyes, speaking of her torture in Honduras, where electric wires were attached to her breasts and vagina
“They always asked to be killed. Torture is worse than death.”
José Barrera, Hoduran torturer
Turkey, July 14, 1999, the police break into the home of a Kurdish family and announce they want to take the two daughters -Medine 14, and her younger sister Devran – i for questioning. “I headed for the bedroom to get dressed,” said Devran later, “but Medine...went straight to the window and jumped.”
Medine's mother explained : “My daughter, you see, preferred death to being tortured once again.”
“Torture might last a short time, but the person will never be the same”
Amnesty International report
“No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for torture.”
The convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman o Degrading Treatment or Punishement, Article 2, S
From the book “Rogue State” by William Blum