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Sat 07 Jul 2009'I've been dead and back'
In Iraq, individuals are almost routinely kidnapped and tortured while their families try to raise ransoms. For one Iraqi-Irishman on a visit home, this happened days before he was due to leave again, and he has spent years recovering back in Ireland
“The aim of torture is not to kill the victim, but to break down the victim’s personality,” according to the Centre for the Care of Survivors of Torture, in a summary of insights gleaned from long experience. As the only specialist centre in Ireland providing medical and psychological services to torture victims, the centre has treated about 900 people since it was established in 2001.
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