The purpose of this list is to select the intentions that the alleged perpetrator(s) had in torturing the victim(s).

This list has been developed by HURIDOCS. It is based on a list included in the HURIDOCS Standard Formats: A Tool for Documenting Human Rights Violations (1). The original codes from this list are included in the column 1st ed. Code.

This is a hierarchical list with two levels, as described in Rule No. 3 in the Introduction.

This Micro-thesaurus is used for field 3351 Intent in the Additional Details: Torture format.

CODE
 TERM
 1ST ED. CODE
 
01
 Extraction of information 01
02 Intimidation 02
02 01 Intimidation against the victim  
02 02 Sowing fear or creating pressure on others  
03 Punishment 03
04 Destruction of personality 04
05 Destruction of the opposition 05
06 Sadism 06
07 Extortion 07

90 Other 09

99 Unknown  

(1) Dueck, Judith, et al. HURIDOCS Standard Formats: A Tool for Documenting Human Rights Violations. Oslo: HURIDOCS, 1993. 194.