References to lynching were frequent, and pictures of nooses were used for intimidation.
In Colombia, however, it seems it is also starting to be used for violent intimidation.
This in turn could be used for voter intimidation in 2012.
Torture has been found to be "a violation of personal dignity and is used for such purposes as intimidation, degradation, humiliation and discrimination, punishment, control or destruction of a person".
Julius Baer, which has denied its Cayman branch was used for tax dodging, says Mr. Elmer waged a "campaign of personal intimidation and vendetta" against the bank after it refused his demands for financial compensation following his 2002 dismissal.
"But during the war they were used for anti-aircraft surveillance and Albert Speer used them as props in a spectacle of intimidation.
"Secondly, the danger that Russia might believe that the large-scale conventional forces that she's shown she can generate at very short notice … could in future be used not just for intimidation and coercion, but potentially to seize Nato territory, after which the threat of escalation might be used to prevent re-establishment of territorial integrity".
"The danger is that Russia might believe that the large-scale conventional forces which she has shown she can generate at very short notice – as we saw in the snap exercise that preceded the takeover of Crimea – could in future be used not only for intimidation and coercion but potentially to seize Nato territory," he said.
'It never occurred to me that it could be used as a tool for intimidation, which I think it is,' " Nurse told The Independent earlier this week.
