The report offers a grim panorama of enforced disappearances intertwined with deliberate acts of torture aimed at silencing dissent and instilling fear. TORTURE AS ROUTINE PROCEDUREAccording to the report, survivors recounted forms of torture that were not only brutal but clearly premeditated and systematic. In several accounts, survivors described the torture being repeated over days, leaving permanent damage to their physical and mental health. Despite differences in the device types, survivors described both as “machines of punishment” intended to break both body and mind. “Victims of torture were often held in enforced disappearance during these horrific practices,” the report read.
