guardian | “Stand up, motherfucker,” they both shouted, almost synchronous. Then a
session of torture and humiliation started. They started to ask me the
questions again after they made me stand up, but it was too late,
because I told them a million times, “Whenever you start to torture me,
I’m not gonna say a single word.” And that was always accurate; for the
rest of the day, they exclusively talked.
_______ turned the air conditioner all the way down to bring me to
freezing. This method had been practiced in the camp at least since
August 2002. I had seen people who were exposed to the frozen room day
after day; by then, the list was long. The consequences of the cold room
are devastating, such as ______tism, but they show up only at a later
age because it takes time until they work their way through the bones.
The torture squad was so well trained that they were performing almost
perfect crimes, avoiding leaving any obvious evidence. Nothing was left
to chance. They hit in predefined places. They practiced horrible
methods, the aftermath of which would only manifest later. The
interrogators turned the A/C all the way down trying to reach 0°, but
obviously air conditioners are not designed to kill, so in the well
insulated room the A/C fought its way to 49°F, which, if you are
interested in math like me, is 9.4°C—in other words, very, very cold,
especially for some- body who had to stay in it more than twelve hours,
had no underwear and just a very thin uniform, and who comes from a hot
country. Somebody from Saudi Arabia cannot take as much cold as somebody
from Sweden; and vice versa, when it comes to hot weather.
Interrogators took these factors in con- sideration and used them
effectively.
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