Waterboarding
Waterboarding is a name for an ancient torture technique.[1]
The torture subject is made to lay on their backs.[2][3][4][5][6] Either a wet rag is placed over their nose and mouth, or a continuous stream of water is poured over their nose and mouth.
When the subject tries to breath in they suck water into their lungs.
The technique is often incorrectly described as "simulating drowning". Drowning is not an instantaneous process. People who are in the process of drowning feel panic as their lungs fill with water. They panic as their body is not able to absorb oxygen from the air in their lungs.
People subjected to waterboarding are forced through the early stages of drowning. It is a dangerous technique, and they could still drown, if their torturer is reckless.
References[edit]
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Lemuel Gulliver. Book 4--A Look at Our Values. Overpopulation Problems. p. 277. Retrieved 2025-01-06.
In the Thirteenth Century the Fourth Lateran Council and Pope Gregory IX's inquisition continued the trend to not turn the other cheek. This continued into the Fifteenth Century. By modern standards of Christian justice the methods of accussation and punishment were unethical and inhumane, yet pope after pope condoned it.
- ↑ "Diane Beaver: Torture Connection: "We'll need documentation to protect ourselves"". Torture Accountability Cener.
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Diane Beaver (October 11, 2002). "Memorandum for Commander, Joint Task Force 170: Legal Review of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques". Joint Task Force 170, Department of Defense. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - ↑ Brian Ross and Richard Esposito (November 18, 2005). "CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described: Sources Say Agency's Tactics Lead to Questionable Confessions, Sometimes to Death". ABC News.
- ↑ Jerald Phifer (October 11, 2002), Memorandum for Commander, Joint Task Force 170: Request for Counter-Resistance Strategies, Joint Task Force 170, Department of Defense
- ↑ Michael Kerrigan (2001). The Instruments of Torture. G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Lyons Press. ISBN 978-1-58574-247-9. Retrieved 2025-01-06.