What is the Meaning & Definition of torture
Torture is a process that applies on a living being with certain purposes. One of the most common is obtaining information, certain actions or of him repentance to who was assaulted when it comes to human beings. However, in many cases torture does not have a specific purpose and it inflicts on person or animal simply for the pleasure of seeing another life to suffering and thus to establish a level of hierarchy or power over the other.
Torture can be varied but generally the actions that are carried out tend to be deeply painful and wild. In many cases, physical torture takes place through actions such as electrocution, blows of different type, momentary choking, apply hot surfaces on the body, etc. Torture may also be accompanied by various kinds of psychological violence such as insults, permanent denigration not just the physical appearance of a person if not to ethnicity, religion or political ideology that poseea the person, etc.
Torture has been one of the most recurrent forms of authoritarian governments and anti democratic who came to power with specific objectives of annihilation of a part or more of a community. Clear examples of this may be to Nazism, Stalinism and the different military dictatorships in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
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