Some allege physical abuse; all allege that they were in an inherently coercive environment.
The aim and effect of this coercive environment is clear – to make life for Palestinians on the land unliveable.
In an unprecedented step, the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy has issued a statement deploring "the bullying and coercive environment that our members are describing to us".
And in some parts of India the pressure on health workers to meet family planning targets has created a coercive environment for families.
The government's directive to dismantle the Haitian camps will make the repatriation of the Haitians--currently implemented through a coercive environment--even more coercive and result in the direct, forced repatriation of these refugees.
These confiscations as well as previous demolitions, compounded by the inability of humanitarian agencies to deliver relief items to the affected households, create a coercive environment that potentially pressures them to leave their current sites against their will.
And a coercive environment means that police officers are required under the 1966 Miranda ruling of the United States Supreme Court to inform suspects that they have a right to be silent and to seek the help of a lawyer.
The system described by General Miller appears to mark a change in the chaotic and often coercive environment that prevailed at Abu Ghraib prison in late 2003 and early 2004, when a number of American soldiers assaulted and humiliated Iraqi prisoners.
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, who credited Father Serra with bringing "Christianity to this part of the world," said he understood why Indians were upset, acknowledging the whippings and coercive environment.
The verdict took into account mitigating circumstances that a court spokesman, Lars Olsen, said included Duch's cooperation, his admission of responsibility and limited expressions of remorse, the coercive environment of the Khmer Rouge period and the possibility of his rehabilitation.
