Anything is fine! Links are great! Need it for project on center for victims of torture, so if you have anything else, links, that wouold be great too
2006-12-27 09:55:51 · 5 answers · asked by eventer_girl 2 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Hope this helps get you pointed in the right direction. Also, keep in mind that any autobiographies and biographies of survivors of such atrocities as the Holocaust and the Khmer Rouge (in Cambodia) will provide great quotes. I listed a book and a link to the movie, "The Killing Fields" (which is a great story and a visual representation of torture), and other sources below in the source(s) section at the bottom:
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The Irish lawyer William Sampson, writing of his experience under torture, quoted an inquisitor on its futility as a means of obtaining information:
"I mentioned to one of the gaolers my sense of this hardship, as an obstinate guilty person might deny the truth, whilst an innocent one, less courageous, might very readily, to relieve himself from such a state of misery, make a false confession. His answer was laconic: 'Lago confess ... They soon confess.'"
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John Conroy, "Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People," 2000:
"When survivors were asked . . . what they thought was the worst part of their detention, they often cited the . . . mental anguish filling the void between [torture] sessions."
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Kate Millett, "The Politics of Cruelty," 1994:
"To be arrested knowing you will be tortured is to know absolute helplessness before absolute power. . . . You are a creature now, their creature. And they are free to torment you. Any way they wish. They can now inflict any pain or deprivation upon you, and for any reason: amusement, boredom, habit, even simple routine, the routine by which you will be broken, piece by piece."
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Spyros Kousaris, quoted in Steven V. Roberts, "Tortures of Junta Era Still Haunting Greeks," NY Times, 1/10/1975:
"One of the worst aspects was psychological torture. You were in a very small cell, with a very dim light, and all night you could hear loud beatings and screams. Some were real and some were on tape recordings. They would play the tapes all night so we couldn't get any sleep."
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Sister Dianna Ortiz, "The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth," 2002
"When I thought about putting my life back together and asked God for help, I knew it would take a miracle: nothing and no one would ever be able to give me back what I had lost. . . . I still have the horrible past with me -- I carry it in my memory and in my skin and I always will -- but . . . as I improve, I have faith and hope and trust again, on my good days."
2006-12-27 10:04:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a very good site with testimonials from victims and relatives of Falun Gong members (the Chinese government persecutes them because of their religious beliefs and because they believe Tibet should be independent).
Some is in English, most is in Mandarin though.
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/10/29/87897.html
2006-12-27 10:05:55 · answer #2 · answered by tlakkamond 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.nizkor.org/
Dedicated to 12 million Holocaust victims
Oh my God, after reading a couple of your responses to this; how anyone could find it within themselves to find anything remotely amusing in the cruelty to others is someone that really should check themselves into a mental unit FOR LIFE!
2006-12-27 10:53:35 · answer #3 · answered by OPTIMIST 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some of the more popular ones that come to mind are,...
"OW!"
"Ouch"
"Oh God No"
"Stop"
and the ever popular
"SON OF A BIT@H!"
:D
Nathan Hale said something though right before he was hanged
""I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"
2006-12-27 10:07:46 · answer #4 · answered by Z 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wasn't it Jesus who said, " I'll see you in Hell!"
2006-12-27 10:37:14 · answer #5 · answered by BonerBob 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋