Eyewitness Accounts on the Use of Torture 

This website leads you to various links that contain profoundly moving eyewitness audio accounts of torture and murder committed in various arenas. The first one given below is against Guatemalan - principally Mayan peasants during the 1980’s by the right-wing Guatemalan military, armed and trained with U.S. tax dollars (the Reagan era) to thwart an alleged presence of a growing peasant/leftist movement. Forensic anthropologists question whether the peasant movement is not in fact been the true rebirth of the Maya culture, not a challenge to world peace or the internal stability of Central American countries.

Significant research efforts are underway in multiple settings in this geographic area. The subject matter being examined make a profound statement with regard to more than 200,000 people lost over a 36-year period. We fear ignorance and/or apathy around the world regarding the foreign policy that made it possible for such crimes against humanity. To examine eyewitness results that has been developed courtesy of European journalists and associated professionals see the Study of Torture Committed in Guatemala.

Then, to look at the ugly affects within the Bush declared War on Terrorism click on The Torture Question for an analysis its use in the US War attributed to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. These accounts were carried out under the leadership of US General Miller allegedly aided by a cadre of mental health professionals who perfected the torture measures in the Guantanamo Bay prisons and leap frogging that capability to Iraq's Abu Ghraid and Afghanistan prisons; Front Line's report shows us when it was not feasible to carry out torture and abuse under US directions prisoners were secretly flown to Morocco and Pakistan.

Torture at Any Time Is Repugnant

No doubt the use of torture against anyone is repugnant. Until Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush gave the authority to commit torture by Executive Orders, the United States fought its use and demanded respect for the Geneva Conventions mandating principles will be followed. Like indictment of Henry Kissinger - the former US Secretary of State, ex-Chilean Dictator Pinochet, mainland China's ex-Premier Jiang Zemin who tortured 25,000  Falon Gong and remains under Court reviews, grave rebuke seems in order for those who set the course for these ugly periods in history.

       [ "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."   - Edmund Burke ]