You must make the injustice visible, and be prepared to die like a soldier to do so.

from the movie Gandhi (1982)

I believe for many years now that journalism, particularly television journalism, by its failure to show the real horror of war has become
a lethal weapon supporting governments that want to go to war. Robert Fisk (Middle East Correspondent, The Independent)

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Pinochets humanitarian violations have been euphemized by the media for general consumption. We are presented with words, but not
images. We read about torture or disappearance rather than protracted descriptions of the crimes. This form of synecdoche has
become widely abused as it has given the world the luxury of debating the abuses without tackling the reality.
When Iris and I discuss torture, she vaguely refers to how terrible it was and shakes her head. She then focuses on telling me about her
family and how valuable they have been. In a way, we dance around the ugliness of the crimes just as the media and post-Pinochet
debates do. The difference is we arent avoiding something unknown, but rather something she knows too well.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/2/7/torture-under-pinochet-we-were-peeling/

Once at the prison camp, agents questioned Ayress for hours to gain information about liberal intelligence. She refused to answer and
suffered immense torture. Ayresss torture began with nude beatings. Agents yelled insults at her while they beat her. They screamed,
Speak, red dog, or we will shoot your father and brother in front of you! Each day her torture worsened. Agents sliced her skin and
burnt her with cigarettes. Then they hung her from the ceiling and crammed tree limbs and coke bottles into her vagina and anus. As the
days passed Ayress endured more gruesome treatment. Tortures stripped her naked and placed her on metal bedsprings where they
shocked her tongue and vagina. Guards employed animals to conduct torture on Ayress and forced her to endure rape by Dobermans.
They also shoved starved rats into her vagina. She screamed as the rats ripped and tore their way out. Guards raped Ayress over 40 times
and consequently she became pregnant. She feared that if her tortures learned of her pregnancy she would face maniacal experimentation
on her fetus. She kept quiet about her pregnancy but as a result of endless torture miscarried.
Personal Web Pages of UAH Students, Faculty and Staff (uah.edu)
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/03/nyregion/public-lives-years-after-torture-a-cry-against-
pinochet.html

Conditions at the camp were designed to break down the sense of humanity of the prisoners. Ayress was frequently held incommunicado
in a cell about six feet by six feet. Food came infrequently and then was thrown on the floor, where she was forced to eat like an animal
on all fours. Most days a guard took her to a latrine at 6 a.m. Since she had no soap and no way to heal the burns and cuts thac created
open wounds all over and inside her http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/12/04/women-file-complaint-in-chile-over-rape-sexual-torture-
during-pinochet-era.htmlbody, she had massive infections. The shackling, electro shocks, and rapes were standard fare, but the torturers
outdid themselves with bestiality. They trained Boxers to rape women, and with Nieves Ayress and others, they introduced mice into the
vagina, where the terrified rodents ripped and bit in their attempts to get out.
http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/7834/HWS-210.pdf

See page 170 of the following National Security Archive Book purchased at UW bookstore:
Kornbluh, Peter. The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. New York: New, 2013. Print.

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CRAIG MURRAY: I think its just what any decent person would do, I mean, when you come across people being boiled and their
fingernails pulled out or having their children raped in front of them [by CIA funded and created black sites in Uzbekistan], you just cant
go along with it and sleep at night.
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/1/19/exclusive_ex_british_ambassador_to_uzbekistan
The Wests Torture Farm ABC Australia, April 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxZLWZfMsLM

The report is updated at a later date: The corpse was a LN (local national) male child. The corpse was taken to ######## general
hospital. IA (Iraqi Army) reported the child had died from blunt force trauma to the head. Several small holes originally thought to be
gunshot wounds were holes caused by a drill. Closed.
http://www.channel4.com/news/iraqs-secret-war-logs-iraqi-torture

More information: (Bing/Google search School of the Americas and see the online video narrated by Susan Sarandon)
http://www.salon.com/2004/07/15/hersh_7/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/06/iraq-security-forces-abusing-women-detention
https://www.democracynow.org/2005/10/12/sister_dianna_ortiz_details_her_abduction
http://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/UN%20verdict%20on%20East%20Timor.pdf
http://www.princeton.edu/~soapbox/vol3no2/32mandic.html
http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/langguthleaf.html
http://www.salon.com/2009/06/30/accountability_7/ (The Suppressed Facts: Death by US Torture by Glenn Greenwald)