torture

Discusses the use of sound as a weapon, relating how non-lethal sonic weapons have been used as torture and crowd control.

Pt. 1. The Mechanism. 1. Solzhenitsyn and the Creation of the Gulag. 2. The Nazi Camp System. 3. Henri Alleg and Colonialism in Algeria. 4. The British in Ireland. 5. The Apartheid System in South Africa -- Pt. 2. The Imagination. 6. Photography: The Experience of Shock. 7. Closet Land: State and Sexual Authority. 8. The Extreme Experience of Solitude: Aurobindo, Ngugi, Nien Cheng -- Pt. 3. Recent Politics of Cruelty in Action. 9. The Little School: Argentina and Brazil. 10. The Death of a Guatemalan Village. El Salvador. 11. State Torture and Religion. The Torture of Children. 12. Conclusion.

The medieval world had a variety of ways of dealing with crime, sorcery, and other instances of breaking society’s rules. Few of them were pleasant in any way. Indeed, many of these responses were embarrassing or painful for those being punished, and quite a few involved outright torture or even death.

Sergeant Edgar Brighton of the Shadow Squadron is in Colombia, assisting on an anti-drug operation--but when he is captured and tortured by the rebels he must find a way to escape before they break him.

The family and friends of a Haitian immigrant living in New York City describe his tortured past.

Documents the murder case of Joelito Filartiga, a Paraguay boy who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the Paraguayan police. Describes how Joelito's father, Dr. Joel Filartiga, pursued justice and worked with the United States government to arrest and try the policeman responsible for his son's death, who was hiding in America. Explains the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789, which allows U.S. courts to try international cases on behalf of foreign human rights.

Interviews, eyewitness accounts, and political sources help chronicle the personal life, rise to power, arrest, and imprisonment of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, the first former head of state to be arrested on charges of crimes against humanity.

A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continued to haunt him.

Detailed investigation of mind control, medical torture, and other frightening exploitations of the human psyche and body by doctors working for the CIA.