Torture does not understand style. Just turn up the volume. No matter that the lyrics for the band Rage Against the Machine (RATM) are an angry indictment of capitalism and spit directly into the face of Bush. Their songs, along with groups like Metallica, AC / DC or the sweet Britney Spears, have been used for years by the U.S. military as psychological torture techniques in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. "Ready to physical torture," says the British newspaper The Guardian Ruhal Ahmed, a British citizen has passed the U.S. base in Cuba. "No problem if you interrogated in a room while they beat you. You prepare mentally and that's it.'s Worst psychological torture."
The artists involved have had enough of his music sounds in the walls of Guantanamo and have just arranged through Zero dB (zero dB), an initiative that aims to reach 30,000 members and press well to musical abuses cease. "What we're hoping is that metiesen Bush in one of those small cells and verifications will our music until he was deaf," proposed RATM guitarist Tom Morello. With this ensemble, the musicians raised silence against noise. Thus, the first acts of Zero dB begin to see at concerts where bands keep several minutes of silence before their performance.
United States has never denied these practices. In fact it was the U.S. military commander in Iraq, Ricardo Sanchez, the authorized in 2003, with the approval of their superiors. The goal was to "create fear, disorient ... and extend the impact of capture." Binyam Mohamed is one of the Guantanamo detainees who have suffered these abuses: "They put in a dark room and tie you down. I left several days without sleep and when you have swollen legs and hands were numb starts playing loud music. They put me Mr. Eminem and Dre for 20 days. "
A list of musicians that sound deafening at Guantanamo so far add some hard rock like David Gray, an English singer velvety cadence. Also the innocent melodies Sesame Street. Its author is out of stone at the news.
The band Metallica, which showed in his time an absolute indifference to the use of their songs ("We have tortured for years at our parents, wives and friends with our music. Why the Iraqis were going to be different? "said the singer), is now shown for the initiative Zero dB. This may have expiry date in January 2009 as promised by the president-elect Barack Obama, Guantanamo ceases to exist. What does not seem so sure that this technique is no longer used in other conflicts.
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