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The parrilla is a method of torture in which the victim is tied to a metal frame and subjected to electric shock.

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Name

Spanish word parrilla [pa'ri? A] means a cooking grill or barbecue type commonly found in South American countries. By analogy, the metal framework used in torture is given the same name because of its appearance and because the victim is placed on it like a meat on a barbecue. Parrilla is a metal frame and a torture method that uses it.

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Use

Parrilla is used in a number of countries in South America, including Argentina during the dirty war in the 1970s and 1980s and Brazil. In Chile during the Pinochet regime (1973-1990) became famous as a routine interrogation tool.

The victim was stripped naked, then placed on his back on a metal frame, often the bed. The strap is used to hold the victim in a comfortable position for torture, with the legs spread and arms above the head or away from the side of the body. The rope is fastened to prevent movement. Preparation methods include severe stimulation of the genitals, often with vibrators and ointments that increase sensitivity, such as peppermint oil or various types of pepper.

The electricity is taken from a standard outlet and fed through the control box for the victim by two wires ending with the electrode. The controls on the box allow the torturers to adjust the voltage and thus the severity of the electric shock.

Various methods are used to manage shocks. A common method, chosen to maximize pain and distress, is to use electrodes mounted on the victim's highly sensitive body parts during the period of torture. In other methods, the wire is mounted on the victim and the wire with the bare end or electrode with a wooden insulation handle is moved to touch the different sensitive parts of the body alternately, thus causing current to flow through the body between two electrodes. For men, the lead remains wrapped around the gland or into a conductive wire pouch that fits over the penis and scrotum. For women, lead wires will still be attached to electrodes - either short metal rods or, for better electrical contacts, scrubs of wetted steel wool pan - and electrodes will then be inserted into the vagina. The torturer then touches the second electrode to various places in the body, such as the mouth, neck, torso, and legs. This results in tremendous pain, at both entry and exit points on the victim. Damage is often caused where the moving electrode is applied near the point where the electrode has remained placed. It also causes intense pain and hard muscle contractions. Usually the tortured person remains blindfolded to add a sense of helplessness because it is impossible to predict where and when the next moving electrode will be touched to the body. This type of torture will continue for long periods of time, often for days and weeks.

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Effectiveness

Different opinions about whether there is a form of torture that reaches the purpose of those who use it. Whether the parrilla is effective in that sense, it achieves a number of torture objectives effectively or more than any other torture methods available to them:

• Parrilla is easy to use for torturers. Unlike beatings and other forms of physical torture, no physical effort is required on their part and the severity of the torture can be easily adjusted by varying the strength of the shock.
• It has a powerful psychological effect, even before the shock is applied to the victim. Women, in particular, find the process prepared for a session about degrading the parrilla. For some women, part of their preparation is to be raped upon arrival in the torture chamber to "soften" them. Sheila Cassidy writes that she considers herself lucky not to be raped because she knows other women have been raped. Even when the women were not raped before the parilla, many women were found forced to naked, tied up in open positions, and then raped through the insertion of electrodes into the vagina to become sexually abusive and intimidating. Implanting this degraded feeling to the victim is intended by torturers. Part of the torture process is that women and men victims are made to feel utterly powerless and with the power of their torturers.
• The physical effects are very severe. When shocks are applied, the victim says the experience is very painful. Sometimes hard muscle contractions in controlled limbs cause them to break. Some prisoners even died.

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Everywhere else in the world

Electric shock torture has been, and is still used in many places in the world, and often victims are confined to frames or tables. Only in South America is a type of torture called parrilla. The metal bed frame connected to a car battery is used for electricity in Tuol Sleng during its existence as a destruction center in Democratic Kampuchea.

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Symbolism

The use of parrilla has declined in many places where it was once common. In Chile it is no longer used, but its reputation survives. This seems to be one of the most feared methods of torture, perhaps because many prisoners suffer and it is appropriate for authorities to publicize their use extensively. As a result, he has achieved an almost legendary status. For example, former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet was questioned in an interview about his own torture as a young woman in 1975. He said that he 'saved parrilla', so it shows in a phrase that he thinks his torture is less severe than most of his Chilean friends.

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See also

• DINA
• Villa Grimaldi
• Torture
• Use of electric shock for torture
• Ethical arguments about torture

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References

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External links

• The page (in Spanish) contains an illustration of the parrilla used.

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