Kidnapping and Torture

Saint Romero pray for us

I was a member of AAAS, Engineering Division, long time ago, back in the time when I was working in High Tech. They are basically a benign organization dedicated to Science. At the time I was a member, I ordered from them and still have my copy of 'The Breaking of Bodies and Minds - Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions - Edited by Eric Stover and Elena O. Nightingale, M.D., Foreword by David A. Hamburg, M.D. - American Association for the Advancement of Science.'

It is a timeless indictment of False Imprisonment and Torture by Medical and any other authority and person and persons for any reason, especially political suppression of peoples.

Where you find political suppression, you will always find religious suppression with it. Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was assassinated for his profession of Jesus Christ and stance against persecution of the faith and oppression of the poor people by neo-fascist United States sponsored (read Heinz [a.k.a. Henry] Kissinger's Operation Condor and related Vatican Ratlines, Granta, ODESSA, Nazi/Neo-Nazi South American CIA insurgencies and murder) paramilitary right-wing groups and the government. Saint Romero did not then align himself with the Marxists, instead, he aligned himself with Jesus Christ and His kingdom as he had always done.

From Wikipedia: Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980)^[1] was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He became the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding Luis Chávez. He was assassinated on 24 March 1980.

In less than three years, more than fifty priests have been attacked, threatened and slandered. Six of them are martyrs, having been assassinated; various others have been tortured, and others expelled from the country. Religious women have also been the object of persecution. The archdiocesan radio station, Catholic educational institutions and Christian religious institutions have been constantly attacked, menaced, threatened with bombs. Various parish convents have been sacked.^[7]

— Oscar Romero

For a prime and always pertinent medical indictment of kidnapping ('desaparecido' - disappearance) and torture go to this source -

Link: AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

Title:	The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions
Price:	$11.95 ($9.50 for AAAS members)
Author(s):	Elena O. Nightingale Eric Stover
Year:	1985
Language(s):	English
Distributor:	AAAS Science and Human Rights Program 1200 New York Avenue, NW Washington DC, 20005 Tel: 202 326 6600 Fax: 202 289 4950 E-mail: shrp@aaas.org Cost of shipping and handling will be added to the invoice. Please indicate if you need rush delivery.

Title: The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions

Price: $11.95 ($9.50 for AAAS members)

Author(s): Elena O. Nightingale
Eric Stover

Year: 1985

Language(s): English

Distributor: AAAS Science and Human Rights Program
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington DC, 20005

Tel: 202 326 6600
Fax: 202 289 4950
E-mail: shrp@aaas.org

Cost of shipping and handling will be added to the invoice. Please indicate if you need rush delivery.