Word: falanga
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...being copied in Argentina. Behavior-altering techniques-like torturing a prisoner while he is being shown slides of his family-are showing up in Brazil. (The prisoner comes to associate his wife and children with pain-and the effects seem to endure.) In Greece, a favorite technique is the falanga, in which the soles of the feet are beaten to a pulp with sticks. South Viet Nam is accused of using a well-known form of torture in which soapy water is pumped into a victim's stomach and then forced out through the nostrils...
...When I was laid out in the terrazza, I told them again, 'I am going to have a baby. Be careful of my stomach, please.' But they do not care at all about my stomach. Mallios [an interrogator] ordered Spanos [a security agent] to give me 15 falanga [whacks on the feet...
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