Electric shocks donīt cause blood spills, but they are highly painfull and highly illegal.
Placing a man under a water drip wonīt cause any visible physical damage, but give it a few hours and the guy underneath the drips will go bananas.
The human mind is highly imaginative when it comes to develope new and improved techniques of inflicting pain, wether physical or psychological.
For those countries that donīt give a shit about the Genevre Convention, it is easy to use more brutal ways of torture. But those countries that want to portray an image of legallity and compliance to international conventions, they have ways to bend the rules and leave no marks to tell the tale.
I donīt think there is a single country in the world that doesnīt use torture, one way or another. Except maybe the Vatican. All the other countries use and abuse of torture techniques to get people to submit to the will of the state. Some use it more, others use it less, but they all have instances of abuses going on inside their jails and police stations. Some tortures will leave flesh wounds and marks, others will leave battered minds, but all of them will leave deep psychological scars that will never heal. Itīs a fact of life.
One of the most common forms of torture is isolation, and sensory deprivation. Every jail, every penitenciary has at least one solitary where to confine people to break the spirits of its inoccupants.
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Hell, even the brutal onslaught of spam and publicity on the TV could and should be considered torture! Just as listening to George W. Bush trying to say something inteligent, using his brain cell nš2! (nš1 was fried at birth)
