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198 THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTHCOLONIAL WAR AND MENTAL DISORDERS199"How does torturing make you feel?""It wears you out, of course ... It's true we take turns, but thequestion is knowing when to let your colleague have a go. Everyonethinks he's just about to get the information and is carefulnot to hand over the customer all nice and ready for the otherguy to take all the glory. So sometimes we hand him over andsometimes we don't."We even offer the guy money, our own pocket money, to gethim to squeal. Our problem is, are we able to get the guy to talk?It's a matter of personal success; we're sort of competing. Weeventually messed up our fists. So we brought in the 'Senegalese.'But they either hit too hard and mess up the guy in thirty minutes,or not enough and nothing happens. In fact, you need touse your head in this kind of work. You need to know when totighten your grip and when to loosen it. You have to have a feelfor it. When the guy is ripe, there's no point continuing toThat's why it's best to do your own work, you can judgebetter how you're doing. I'm against those who get others to workthe guy over and then pop in every so often to see how he's doing.The golden rule is never give the guy the impression won'tget out alive. He'll then wonder what's the use of talking if it won'tsave his life. In that case you'll have no chance at all of gettinganything out of him. has to go on hoping: It's hope that makesthem talk."But what bothers me most, is this business with my wife. Imust have a screw loose somewhere. You've got to straighten meout, doctor."Since his administration refused to give him a sick leave andthe patient did not wish for. certification from a psychiatrist, wetreated him "while on duty." It is easy to imagine the disadvantagesof such a procedure. This man knew perfectly well that allhis problems stemmed directly from the type of work conductedin the interrogation rooms, though he tried to blame everythingon "the troubles." As he had no intention of giving up his job asa torturer (this would make no sense since he would then haveto resign) he asked me in plain language to help him tortureAlgerian patriots without having a guilty conscience, without anybehavioral problems, and with a total peace of mind. 25SERIES BHere we have collected cases or groups of cases where the triggeringfactor is first and foremost the atmosphere of outright warthat reigns in Algeria.Case No. 1-The murder by two thirteen- and fourteen-year-oldAlgerians of their European playmateThis involves a medical and legal examination. Two thirteenfourteen-year-oIds,Algerian schoolboys, are accused of killingone of their European playmates. They have admitted to theact. The crime has been reconstructed and photos included inthe file. They show one ofthe children holding their victim whileother stabs him with a knife. The accused did not go backon their statements. We have long conversations with them.relevant extracts read as follows:a. The thirteen-year-old:"We were not angry with him. Every Thursday we used to goand hunt together with a slingshot up on the hill behind the village.He was our best friend. He had left school because hewanted to become a mason like his father. One day we decidedto kill him because the Europeans want to kill all the Arabs. Wekill the 'grown-ups,' but we can kill someone like him becausehe's our own age. We didn't know how to go about it. We25 This ease revealed the existence of a coherent system that leaves noth.ing intact Thc torturer who loves birds or quietly enjoys a symphony or a sonatais simply onc stage. The next is nothing more than radical and absolutesadism.
200 THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTHCOLONIAL WAR AND MENTAL DISORDERS 201wanted to throw him into a ditch, but this might only have injuredhim. So we took a knife from home and we killed him.""But why did you pick on him?""Because he used to Dlav with us. Another bov wouldn't havegone up the nIH With us."he was a friend of yours?""So, why do they want to kill us? His father's in the militia andsays we all ought to have our throats slit.""But he didn't say anything like that to you?""Him? No.""You know he's dead now.""Yes.""What does being dead mean?""It means it's all over, you go to Heaven."you'l·n'l' ....""Yes.""Are you sorry you killed someone?""No, because they want to kill us, so ...""Do you mind being in prison?""No."b. The fourteen-year-old:This boy is very different from his classmate. He is almost aman, an adult, judging from his muscular control, his physiognomy,and the tone and content ofhis answers. He does notkilling either. Why did he do it? He does not answer the quesasksme if 1 have ever seen a European in prison. Hasever been a European arrested and imprisoned for themurder of an Algerian? 1 replied that in fact 1 had never seenany Europeans in prison."And yet there are Algerians killed every day, aren't there?""Yes.""So why are there only Algerians in prison? How do you explainthat?""I can't, but tell me why you killed this boy who was yourfriend?"the Rivet business?"26"of my family were killed that day. At home they saythe French had sworn to kill us all, one after the other. Has anyFrenchman been arrested for all those Algerians that werekilled?""I don't know.""Well, no one has been arrested. 1wanted to take to the mountains,but I'm too young. So [the other boy] and 1 said ... wewould kill a European.""Why.7"do you think we should have done?""I don't know. But you are a child and the things that are goingon are for grown-ups.""But they kill children too.""But that's no reason for killing your friend.""Well, 1killed him. Now you can do what you like.""Did this friend do anything to you?""No. He didn't do anything.""Well?""That's all there is to it."Case No.2-Paranoid delusions and suicidal behavior disguisedas "terrorist act" in a young twenty-two-year-old Algerianpatient was referred to the hospital by the French judiciaryauthorities following a medical and legal examination byFrench psychiatrists practicing in Algeria.The patient was emaciated and in a state of confusion. Hisbody was covered in ecchymoses and he was unable to absorbany food owing to two fractures of the jaw. For over two weeksthe patient was fed intravenously.in the region around which became headlineOne evening the was raided by French militiamen from their beds and murdered them.
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