I have called myself a torture victim, and I truly am. Most of my torture is mental, a campaign of state terrorism and high-tech assault that few could comprehend without experiencing it. There are some aspects, however, that anyone can understand. When bio-chemical weapons create painful, debilitating, disfiguring illness in the absence -- the deliberate deprivation -- of effective, curative medical treatment, when days, weeks, months, seasons, and years pass devoid of hope, denied the protection of law or any form of effective advocacy, the cumulative result is not pretty...

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