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I began to hear, coming through one of the walls of pressed
.board, the sound of a lot of running water, and then the cries
of my husband Insulting them and repeatedly calling them
"murderers". This is repeated approximately every hour, or
perhaps less* Obviously the torture room is next door. On the
following day — I . guess—they took me out and led me to a
corridor on the same floor. My legs are so swollen that the
shackles begin to cut into my skin..' A nurse came who loosens
the shackles and put cotton around my legs'. A guard asked him
"Why are you doing that?" and the nurse replied "So... we don't
have to treat her afterwards". He asked me why, I, a doctor,
had gotten into this, and he said he didn't understand how,
with all the money we could earn, we had ended up here. He
added that if I needed anything to ask to speak with Pedro, the
nurse, since there were other Pedros there. There were chairs
against the wall on each side, in the passageway, very close to
each other. They told me to close my eyes. Then they took the
mask off and ordered me to open,my eyes. I could not see
anything because they were taking photographs and the
flashbulbs blinded me. One of the ones who. had been to my
house approached me and put a hood of thick white cloth over my
head. He explained that with that hood they would not bother
me. That was because they were taking people to the torture
room according to the order of their chairs.'. I could see that,
because the door was nearby and every time they took someone
out, the noise of running water and the desperate screams of
pain could be heard, despite the fact that a record player was
constantly playing very loud music. There were certain songs
that they played more frequently, an^ despite the fact that the
tapes were worn, I could hear the lyrics which went roughly:
"and now what are they? where are they? what are their Ideals?
etc." I wondered why my legs were so swollen. I said that I
had a weak heart and therefore bad circulation. They put
another chair In front of me to put my legs up on. One asked
me if I recognized his voice, and I said he was one of the ones
who had been at my house. I asked for my child and he said
"Relax", we have notified your family and they are coming to
get him." Afterwards I noticed that they brought my husband to
the chair alongside me, because I recognized his pants and
shoes. During the entire time I was there, I heard the same
sound; the loud record player, screams of pain, running water.
The guards wore rubber boots. I suppose I spent an entire day
and night there because the music was Interrupted twice when
they brought food to the guards and their superiors. They
drank a lot of wine asking the guards to bring more. I could
smell the wine. The Chief came and asked how things were
going. They answered that three persons had died, two men and