In passing, one should also note France’s painful discovery that, fifty years on, many former “torturers” in the armed services were having to resort to psychiatric “counselling.” The inflicters of torture as well as their victims remain grievously impaired.

XREF: Ties to broader literature on moral injury and trauma affecting perpetrators of violence, not just victims.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 55