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Abacination is a form of corporal punishment or torture, in which the victim is blinded by infliction of intentional damage to the eyes. Damage can be in the form of removal of the eyes or eyelids, slitting the eyes, burning, excessive pressure, chemical burns , nerve injury , or brain damage . [ 1 ]
The Blinding of Samson. Rembrandt van Rijn, 1636, Städel Frankfurt. Blinding is a type of physical punishment which results in complete or nearly complete loss of vision.It was used as an act of revenge and torture. [1]
The Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (commonly known as the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT)) is a treaty that supplements to the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture.
Article 15 of the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture specify that: . Each State Party shall ensure that any statement which is established to have been made as a result of torture shall not be invoked as evidence in any proceedings, except against a person accused of torture as evidence that the statement was made.
Magyarization (UK: / ˌ m æ dʒ ər aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən / US: / ˌ m ɑː dʒ ər ɪ-/, also Hungarianization; Hungarian: magyarosítás [ˈmɒɟɒroʃiːtaːʃ]), after "Magyar"—the Hungarian autonym—was an assimilation or acculturation process by which non-Hungarian nationals living in the Kingdom of Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, adopted the Hungarian national ...
Two United States soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier waterboard a captured North Vietnamese prisoner of war near Da Nang, 1968.. Interrogational torture is the use of torture to obtain information in interrogation, as opposed to the use of torture to extract a forced confession, regardless of whether it is true or false.
Grenade launcher United States Used by special forces. Mortars; EXPAL M-08 Combi 60mm mortar Spain 96 in service. [13]82-BM-37: 82mm mortar Soviet Union About 50 in service. [13] [14]
Hungarians, also known as Magyars (/ ˈ m æ ɡ j ɑː r z / MAG-yarz; [25] Hungarian: magyarok [ˈmɒɟɒrok]), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) and other lands once belonging to the Kingdom of Hungary who share a common culture, and language.