Pradhan, Alka - short clip - DoctorsoftheDarkSites
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- | This is the one where he talks about doctors, | 0:03 |
and it's actually called Doctors of the Dark Sites. | 0:08 | |
And this is the one where he starts off talking about | 0:12 | |
how all of the techniques were used together. | 0:16 | |
It was never just one. | 0:19 | |
It was always multiple techniques being used together. | 0:20 | |
And so he describes all of the techniques. | 0:23 | |
I was, I wasn't just being suspended to the ceiling. | 0:26 | |
I was naked, starved, dehydrated, | 0:29 | |
cold, hooded, verbally threatened, | 0:33 | |
in pain from the beating and water drowning | 0:36 | |
as my head smashed by hitting against the wall | 0:40 | |
for dozens and dozens of times. | 0:43 | |
My ears were exploding from the blasting harsh music | 0:47 | |
which is still stuck in my head. | 0:49 | |
Sleep-deprived for weeks, | 0:51 | |
I was shaking and trembling. | 0:53 | |
My legs barely supported my weight | 0:54 | |
as my hands were pulled even higher above my head | 0:56 | |
after I complained that the handcuffs were so tight | 0:59 | |
as if cutting through my wrist. | 1:02 | |
Then my legs start to swell. | 1:04 | |
As a result of long suspension, started screaming, | 1:07 | |
and then the doctor comes. The doctor comes. | 1:11 | |
The doctor came with a tape measure, | 1:14 | |
wrapped it around my leg, and to my utmost shock, | 1:17 | |
the doctor told the interrogators, no, that wasn't enough. | 1:19 | |
My legs should get more swollen. | 1:24 | |
He continues this by saying, I imagine the doctor | 1:27 | |
tells the interrogators, the leg wasn't swollen enough. | 1:31 | |
The medical doctor actually advocating for more torture, | 1:34 | |
and you can see in his language here | 1:38 | |
how he's getting more agitated. | 1:41 | |
The medical doctor actually advocating for more torture. | 1:42 | |
And this is what America came to, because this doctor | 1:46 | |
and other doctors are back home in America, | 1:49 | |
and they will be doing | 1:51 | |
what the U.S. government trained them to do. | 1:53 | |
No doubt every now and then, | 1:55 | |
they will miss and long for their sadistic practice, | 1:56 | |
and the American people may be the next victims. | 2:00 | |
I mean, it was a logical conclusion. | 2:03 | |
And then here at the bottom, he just recalls, I think, yeah, | 2:08 | |
he recalls that he'd be checked out by a doctor | 2:12 | |
before he walked into each torture room. | 2:14 | |
The doctor would tell the interrogators | 2:18 | |
which methods they could use. | 2:20 | |
And then as he came out, the doctor would check him again | 2:21 | |
and then tell the interrogators what else they could do. | 2:26 | |
The medical doctors who were on-site | 2:29 | |
were making decisions about how many, | 2:30 | |
what techniques could be used, how they could be combined, | 2:33 | |
and how, and really, you know, | 2:36 | |
kind of horrifyingly how they could be combined | 2:40 | |
in order to get information from these men. Right? | 2:44 | |
So it's not just that there were doctors on-site | 2:49 | |
to ensure that nothing happened. | 2:53 | |
It was not just that there were doctors on-site | 2:57 | |
to check their pulse. | 2:59 | |
There were doctors on-site to actively participate | 3:00 | |
in the torture of detainees. | 3:04 |
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