Niamh O'Connor

And so you're very easily manipulated and controlled.

If they think that you're not moving quick enough, a knee will come swiftly into your head, into your chest, into your stomach, just to like further make you more submissive and controllable.

I, within the first...

hour of being on the prison boat, a woman was shot just for walking across the prison yard.

They then informed us that she was in a protected area and they pointed at this tiny little strip of tape and said, that's what you get for walking in there.

She needed like basically stitches because of the way that they hit her from such close range with a beanbag pouch with full of rubber shrapnel.

Like that escalation of violence wasn't present on the first kidnapping.

They shot people once.

They were immensely angered for whatever reason.

But this was just, it was calm on the boat and they opened fire.

Like it was shocking.

And it was by far the most violent thing I've ever seen, the escalation of violence from the first kidnapping to the second.

He was present, I think, for every batch that went through.

He would went and look at all of them.

So specifically whether he was, like I was in the background, hard to tell.

The most harrowing experience for my entire mission was in that tent.

And it was when I was listening to the national anthem and the screams of people being beaten when they were in stress positions and completely docile.

It, like, intermingled with the song and the soldiers would laugh and they'd turn up and they'd sing along as they're beating people to the point of them, like, screaming for their life.

I remember because your head is pressed to the concrete.

You can't see what's happening and you can just tell...