| They believed that if someone was tortured in order to get them to admit something, that person would always end up saying what the torturer wanted to hear. |
| During the early 1980s, he developed a reputation as a brutal torturer and interrogator. |
| It degrades victims and dehumanizes the torturer. |
| The person being tortured is for the duration of the torturing process physically powerless in relation to the torturer. |
| We are no longer in the presence of a torturer seizing upon a victim and enjoying her all the more because she is unconsenting and unpersuaded. |
| One reason is that torture victims typically tell the torturer whatever they think he wants to hear, e.g. they are happy to implicate others who are in fact innocent in order to bring an end to their own agony. |
