Color and music .. How does white become a painful way of torture without screaming?

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Beautiful things can always become otherwise, and they carry with them the worst that no one expects. How can we imagine that that angelic color can sometimes be a tool of torture, and that soft music sounds and beautiful tones can turn into a killing machine?

Many know different ways of physical torture, and others have repeatedly heard of methods of psychological torture, which relate to threats and intimidation of harming those close to the victims, but no one has ever imagined that there is ugliness that makes White a tool of torture, and music as a means of killing.

Torture the white room
In his poem "Diary of a Patient Prohibited from Writing," Nizar Qabbani says:

My white cover ..

And the time, hours and days are all white

The nurses around me all wrote white papers

Qabbani was suffering from the disease, but at the same time suffered another torment that his doctors did not explain, but he is now known as a method of psychological torture, and is the most serious form of mental pain that affects the current torture, and possibly extend the rest of the age of the victim.

The torture in white depends on the prisoner staying in a white isolation room; all that has white bed, sheet, mattress, pillow, window and door, even white clothes, and the food served is white rice in a white dish.

Psychological torture depends not only on color, but also on the terrible silence, which is a key condition for reaching the desired purpose of torture. The voice of the pin in the cell becomes heard. The prisoner does not talk to anyone. The guard, even the guards' shoes are lined, so as not to make a sound.

No beatings, no burning, no pain, silent white torture, and despite the absence of anything indicative of physical violence, it is the cruelest torture, it is torture sows fear inside you, and gradually lose your identity: Who are you? It is your family? Sometimes the prisoner loses his mind completely, and white in his life becomes a symbol of death.

The most famous white torture victim is Iranian journalist Ebrahim Nabavi, whose story was documented and documented by Amnesty International in 2004, the same year he was tortured. Nabawi tells of his eight months in a white room. The face of my father and mother, when they took me out of that prison I was not an ordinary person at all. "

There have also been other cases of victims of this type of torture in Ireland, the United States and Venezuela, and psychiatric sessions may help to support these victims, but full mental recovery is out of reach, once the victim enters the white room, will not return to normal life again, and ruined Will last forever.

Music as a killing tool
Music is the voice of paradise, so we know it when we talk about music.What comes to mind is love, romance, joy, perhaps sadness, anger, and sometimes enthusiasm and excitement, but we never think of it as a tool of torture.

Musician sociologist Morag Grant highlighted a painful history of the use of music in torture in a Guardian study. For long, unpredictable periods, it meant not only that prisoners were deprived of sleep in peace, but were also unable to find a hearing space that had not been invaded by their captors.

Music penetrates the bones, breaks the mind, violates the prisoner's internal boundaries, loses his ability to concentrate on anything, and the likelihood of anything. The research may have included some prisoners in the recent past, but research has shown that it has gone beyond that, and that torture with music has a history that may be due middle Ages.

Grant ended his research by emphasizing that music can be transformed into a deadly weapon, and must be recognized and banned when used in the context of inhuman treatment and torture of victims.