Author: Greg Rucka

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• Hans Rudolf Oeser (1)
  • IN: Private Wars (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The police repeatedly tortured prisoners, State Department officials wrote, noting that the most common techniques were “beating, often with blunt weapons, and asphyxiation with a gas mask.” Separately, international human rights groups had reported that torture in Uzbek jails included boiling of body parts, using electroshock on genitals and plucking off fingernails and toenails with pliers. Two prisoners were boiled to death, the groups reported. The February 2001 State Department report stated bluntly, “Uzbekistan is an authoritarian state with limited civil rights.”
    FROM: From “U.S. Recruits a Rough Ally to Be Jailer,” by Hans Rudolf Oeser, for the New York Times, May 1, 2005 c. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentTorture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, (2005), Article, US
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Private Wars (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The government claims its efforts serve as part of the global campaign against terrorism. Yet in the overwhelming majority of cases, those imprisoned have not been accused or convicted of terrorism or charged with any other violent act. Human Rights Watch has documented the torture of many of those detained in the context of this compaign, including several who that [sic] died as a result of torture . . . including beatings by fist and with truncheons or metal rods, rape and sexual violence, electric shock, use of lit cigarettes or newspapers to burn the detainee, and asphyxiation with plastic bags or gas masks. A doctor who examined the body of a detainee who died in custody in 2002 described burns consistent with immersion in boiling water.
    FROM: Torture World Wide published by Human Rights Watch, (2005), Article, Na
• Warren Zevon (1)
  • IN: A Fistful of Rain (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In a heart there are windows and doors You can let the light in You can feel the wind blow When there’s nothing to lose And nothing to gain Grab a hold of that fistful of rain
    FROM: Fistful of Rain, (2000), Song, US