Waterboarding/Water Torture

| 11. februar 2008 | Svet | Jure

Richard E. Mezo, ki je bil v okviru usposabljanja izpostavljen zasliševalski tehniki, danes evfemistično poimenovani kot “waterboarding”:

As the two men held me down, one on each side, someone began pouring water onto the blindfold, and suddenly I was drowning. The water streamed into my nose and then into my mouth when I gasped for breath. I couldn’t stop it. All I could breathe was water, and it was terrifying. I think I began to lose consciousness. I felt my lungs begin to fill with burning liquid.

Pulling out my fingernails or even cutting off a finger would have been preferable. At least if someone had attacked my hands, I would have had to simply tolerate pain. But drowning is another matter….

Waterboarding has, unfortunately, become a household word. Back then, we didn’t call it waterboarding — we called it “water torture.” Celoten članek