Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The interrogator’s soul

Original caption: 20 Jan 1968, Da Nang, Vietnam. First Air Cavalrymen and a Vietnamese interpreter lay a towel over the face on an uncooperative Viet Cong suspect and then pour water on it. Photo by Bettmann/Corbis

An ordinary person becomes a torturer with surprising ease. The hard part comes when it’s time to be human again

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