social bonds

the tactic of survivors is to implement an understanding of how the attacker works:

Thus, beyond the state of the prisoners, the focus on the torturers reveals the control strategies exercised to obtain the submission of targets by methods which attack their social bonds, their autonomy, their fundamental human rights.1

A friend of mine in the Dordogne said to me one day: there were so many collaborators. This has stayed in my mind. Wh…