Tools torture. World history of pain. Kerrigan M.

This unique and gloomy collection publication from the famous British expert examines the methods and tools used for torture - from ancient times to the present day, in different countries and among different peoples of the world. The album contains 110 shocking photos and images. Tortum tools are grouped according to the types of technologies used: from “simple” spatial ones, such as imprisonment in a single chamber, kinetic, for example, sitting or standing in an uncomfortable pose, and banal beating - to psychological violence, suspension using a system of complex blocks, torture with water, fire And electricity, as well as exotic methods such as the use of trees, rats, ants and other plants, animals and insects. Michael Kerrigan does not lose sight of the fact that many methods of execution combined the cruel and prolonged causing pain before death. The peculiarity of the book is that the author describes not only the principles of the action of special devices during the torture, but also clarifies what kind of pain there is and what physiological and psychological reactions accompany it.

Unfortunately, torture is not torture something buried in the deepest past. And although many torture tools have long become antique wonders, the technologies of causing pain themselves are used today. And not only criminals and maniacs use them! Modern dictators and their security forces consider it possible to systematically use torture against dissenting and their political opponents. After all, this is not only an “effective” tool for achieving various goals: from intimidation to receiving confessions. But also justified from an ideological point of view: for the sake of the triumph of justice and the security of a particular part of the society regarding “evil”, “excesses” are acceptable. In recent decades, even countries such as Denmark, Great Britain and the USA, periodically crossed the border between a reasonably tough and unjustifiably brutal approach to interrogations and conclusion.

maybe these are only the romantic dreams of humanists, that people will gradually get rid Carrying to rational and methodical violence? But in fact, the horrors described and clearly shown in this historical work still expect us?