Making serious efforts at rehabilitation of torture victims. Experience shows that one act of torture, can cause serious harm and not just to the victim, but his entire family. The family loses the breadwinners, has to incur medical and legal costs, and often get socially ostracized. The work of rehabilitation should be to help victims and their families, so that such harm will not occur. Such rehabilitation thus requires financial help to the families so that they will not get into serious debt and that they can carry on with their lives, medical help to the victim without making it a burden on the family and psychological help for the victim and the family. Such rehabilitation is possible only through strong organisations and community support. The community support can reduce the financial burden for such work. Organisations and families can help with protection, care and expert advice. Sometimes, centers are needed to provide protection to the victims from perpetrators and for rest and recovery. Often, when the perpetrators of torture are faced with legal or disciplinary inquiries, they harass the victims to get the complaints withdrawn. Comprehensive rehabilitation is very much a need. But in most countries, rehabilitation efforts are very small, if they exist at all. A sad result of this is that the victim become dependent on the perpetrators for little mercies. To obtain these little mercies, the victim forgo their rights.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:20:18 +0000
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