Doctors kept torture victims alive so interrogation sessions could continue.
Evidence
Other doctors, attached to the various torture centers, intervene after every session in order to put the tortured back into condition for new sessions. Under the circumstances, the important thing is for the prisoner not to give the slip to the team in charge of the questioning: in other words, to remain alive. Everything—heart stimulants, massive doses of vitamins—is used before, during, and after the sessions to keep the Algerian hovering between life and death. Ten times the doctor intervenes, ten times he gives the prisoner back to the pack of torturers. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 443
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes medical complicity in Nazi experiments; Fanon himself invokes Nuremberg doctors here and in paragraph 440. — connects to: Colonial doctors medically revived torture victims to enable further torture sessions