His reasoning is that it is more merciful to kill the civilians outright rather than let them be captured ( and likely tortured ) by the Romulans.

The group has repeatedly tried to form unions in Colombia for workers of Panamco, a Colombian Coca-Cola bottling company, and have documentation of many members or leaders being murdered, kidnapped, and tortured by right-wing paramilitary groups such as the AUC in order to prevent unionisation.

Torture has never been authorized or permitted for use at Guantanamo Bay or any other U. S. Department of Defense detention / internment / prisoner of war facility on any person be they an enemy prisoner of war, detainee, retainee, protected person, lawful or unlawful enemy combatant though there have been people who have reported being tortured at Guantanamo Bay.

Prisoners were routinely beaten and tortured with electric shocks, searing hot metal instruments and hanging, as well as through the use of various other devices.

Polybius ( 13. 6 ) in an account that either demonstrates the extent of Nabis's tyranny or Polybius's bias, tells how wealthy landowners were often summoned into his presence and forced to pay him large sums of money-those who refused were tortured, supposedly through use of a machine that resembled an Iron Maiden, known as the Apega of Nabis, made after his own wife Queen Apega.

The systematic use of state-terrorism and which emerged in 1966 under President Julio César Méndez persisted under Arana ; government-sponsored " death squads " remained active and the security forces regularly detained, disappeared, tortured and extrajudicially executed political opponents, student leaders, suspected guerrilla sympathizers and trade unionists.

One particularly common means of torture was the use of what was then known as the water cure, by American forces, in one instance “... in order to secure information of the murder of Private O ' Herne of Company I, who had been not only killed, but roasted and otherwise tortured before death ensued .”

Finally, Bond finds Sun's headquarters, but is knocked out by one of Sun's men ; Bond learns that Von Richter will use a mortar to destroy the conference venue and that Bond will be tortured by Sun, before his inevitable demise.

Over the next several years, Sybil found herself more and more disenchanted with the pretense that prisoners like her husband were treated fairly ; James had been tortured, had inflicted serious wounds on himself to convince his captors they could not break or use him, and had spent years in solitary confinement.

The demon says, " There's an entire hotel here just full of tortured souls that could use your help.

* July 26, 2004-Kazemi ’ s mother told the court that her daughter had been tortured, and said she was pressured into burying her daughter at her birthplace in southern Iran under duress in order to deny Canada the opportunity to carry out its own autopsy.

Almost all regimes and governments engaging in torture ( and other crimes against humanity ) consistently deny engaging in it, in spite of overwhelming hearsay and physical evidence from the citizens they tortured.

As punishment for betraying their secrets, Alhazred was tortured.

Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists, though they have among the strictest rules on how to conduct their lives, teach that sinners are destroyed rather than tortured forever.

; this figure includes individuals killed, tortured or exiled, and their immediate families.

Many Egyptians were tortured and martyred to accept the terms of Chalcedon, but Egyptians remained loyal to the faith of their fathers and to the Cyrillian view of Christology.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

Upon taking Kabul the Taliban tortured ex-communist President Najibullah and his brother to death and lynched their dead corpses publicly.

After 1970 they splintered into several violent terrorist groups including the United Red Army who tortured their own members and the Japanese Red Army which murdered civilians and hijacked aircraft.

The Colorado Party's peasant py nandí irregulars (" barefoot ones " in Guaraní ), who had a well-deserved reputation for ferocity, often tortured and executed their prisoners.

Such instruments were finely threaded and variously provided with spiked inner surfaces or heated red-hot before their application to the limb to be tortured.

Both sexually tortured and killed their victims.

Lawyers in the movement have seen some court victories, but in other cases they and their families have been ostracized and tortured for their activities.

Those that had not converted or escaped were sent off in boats down the Danube, while wealthy Jews remained under arrest, several of them tortured and stripped of their property.

Eight Jews were tortured and burned at the stake, and their families forced to convert to Christianity.

The enslaved people were tortured for the purpose of " breaking " them ( like the practice of breaking horses ) and conditioning them to their new lot in life.

Suspects were commonly tortured until they confessed to their crimes and accused others of crimes, and wives and relatives who inquired of those being tortured were themselves arrested and tortured even more severely.

Recently, with the proliferation of small private yachts cruising the Caribbean, piracy is again on the rise with many yachts being plundered and their crews often tortured, raped or slain.

Also birds, insects and animals are released by the thousands in what is known as a ' symbolic act to liberation '; of giving freedom to those who are in captivity, imprisoned, or tortured against their will.

Originally called the 78000 as a homage to their famed 68000 series, the design went through a tortured development path, including the name change, before finally emerging in April 1988.

In Odyssey, however, Homer narrates a different story: Helen circled the Horse three times, and she imitated the voices of the Greek women left behind at home — she thus tortured the men inside ( including Odysseus and Menelaus ) with the memory of their loved ones, and brought them to the brink of destruction.

He killed most of the Jian Wen palace servants, tortured many Jianwen Emperor loyalists to death, killed or by other means badly treated their relatives.

In 1314, the daughters-in-law of Philip IV, Margaret of Burgundy ( wife of Louis X ) and Blanche of Burgundy ( wife of Charles IV ) were accused of adultery, and their alleged lovers ( Phillipe d ' Aunay and Gauthier d ' Aunay ) tortured, flayed and executed in what has come to be known as the Tour de Nesle Affair ().

In the poem Grímnismál, Odin ( disguised as Grímnir ), tortured, starved and thirsty, tells the young Agnar that he wishes that the valkyries Hrist (" shaker ") and Mist (" cloud ") would " bear him a horn ", then provides a list of 11 more valkyries whom he says " bear ale to the einherjar "; Skeggjöld (" axe-age "), Skögul, Hildr, Þrúðr (" power "), Hlökk (" noise ", or " battle "), Herfjötur (" host-fetter "), Göll (" tumult "), Geirahöð (" spear-fight "), Randgríð (" shield-truce "), Ráðgríð (" council-truce "), and Reginleif (" power-truce ").

However, after Zadkiel is unable to truly control Creation and the ultimate power that sparked it, the one true God returns in wrath and condemns the renegade Archangel to Hell for all eternity, to be forever tortured by a pleased Lucifer.

After assuming power, he introduced cosmetic changes to his father's regime and delegated much authority to his advisors, though thousands of Haitians were killed or tortured, and hundreds of thousands fled the country.

Intellectuals and others were suggesting radical ideas such as: " the CPC should give up power ," " intellectuals are virtually being tortured while living in a communist society ," " there is a total lack of freedom if the CPC is to continue on ruling the country ," " the country should separate with each Political Party controlling a zone of its own " and " Each political party in China should rule in transitional governments, each with a 4 year term.

The power struggle in the Abteilung comes into the open when Mundt orders Fiedler and Leamas arrested and tortured.

Following his rise to power, Habré created a secret police force known as the Documentation and Security Directorate ( DDS ), under which opponents of Habré were tortured and executed.

They flee to the Asian laundromat but are betrayed by an ambitious monk who desires the power conferred by the scroll-however, all parties are taken to Strucker's center of operation and tortured.

* As noted above, the standard scholarly interpretation is that Babylon symbolises Rome and the " Whore of Babylon " therefore either refers to the Roman emperor, or personified the power of the Roman Empire under whom many early Christians and Jews were persecuted, tortured, and martyred for their beliefs because they would not submit to the Roman Emperor as a god.

Spots of the historical interest are the wharf symbol of commercial progress, the old church with the old-fashioned “ canyon ” markers of the people ’ s religious faith, the Bag Cement Slabs and Stone quarries Mute Testimonies of the effervescent power and grandeur of the early foreign settlers, the Hills near the railroad station where the Japs tortured and massacred civilians in the barrios of Marao and Polo where the Hunter ’ s Guerillas built their camps.

At the end of issue # 25 of Countdown to Final Crisis Desaad, who had captured and tortured Professor Martin Stein, is able to take over the mantle and the power of Firestorm for himself.

The historian Ben Kiernan stated that Samphan's protestations ( such as the fact that he regarded the collectivisation of agriculture as a " surprise ", and his expressions of sympathy for his " friend " Hu Nim, a fellow member of the CPK hierarchy tortured and killed at Tuol Sleng ) betrayed the fundamental " moral cowardice " of a man mesmerised by power but lacking any nerve.

Betrayed by his two cynical daughters ; hounded as a political risk following military defeat ; pursued by the ghost of a man whose life he has destroyed and whose death he has caused ; imprisoned and tortured until enucleated ; after a life of violence he finally finds wisdom and peace in a radical opposition to power.

Bond is to be wined and dined, lectured on the aesthetics of power, and finally tortured by his chief enemy ’.

The long history of oppression and subordination has to end ” and that " Along both sides of the U. S .- Mexico border “ there is a growing fusion, a reviving of connections ... Southwest Chicanos and Norteño Mexicanos are becoming one people again .”" Truxillo stated that Hispanics who have achieved positions of power or otherwise are “ enjoying the benefits of assimilation ” are most likely to oppose a new nation, explaining that “ There will be the negative reaction, the tortured response of someone who thinks, ' Give me a break.

While being tortured for data on pain thresholds his mutant power surfaces, allowing him to turn into a reptilian skinned creature with talons and large wings.

While Amin was in power, Astles was alternately either favoured or punished ; he was imprisoned and tortured on at least one occasion.