Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of Woundstorture commonly used in jails during the dictatorshipare:1.Deprivation. This torture consists on depriving thevictim from the sensations; sleeping; contact withpeople; natural and artificial lighting.2.Threat. The victim was threatened to torture, execution,and elimination of his family members and relatives.3.Humiliation. The investigators humiliated the victimby teasing and insulting, directed not only towardhim, but also his relatives. The victims were obliged todrink the urine and to eat the excrement of the investigators.During the investigations, the victims were torturednot for obtaining the needed information, but for hurtingthem physically and mentally, and for using the victimsto terrorize the other part of the Albanian society,which was living outside the jails. Torture was exertedin 26 Branches of Intern Affairs, which were Directoriesin the cities of Tirana, Korca and Shkodra.In the Branch of each district, there were a numberof cells, with the dimensions of 2m x 1,20m. But besidesthese, there were some “special” cells with dimensions1m x 0,5m, in which the arrested couldn’t lye himself,couldn’t stay on his feet, the only thing he could do wassitting down or cross-legged.In March of 1993 the newspaper “Revival” of theformer political persecuted of Tirana association, publisheda 186 names list, accusing them for having usedtorture, terror, and violence against the people. The perpetratorsof torture were:276