"I felt defenceless at the time, like there was nothing I could do.
The Australian teenager who was teargassed by guards while locked in a cell and then strapped into a restraint chair by his ankles, wrist and neck, felt "defenceless" and panicked during the ordeals, he told a national inquiry in Darwin on Monday.
"Some of the nerve agents are not visible and do not have an odour, so – as you can imagine – one can feel quite defenceless against such a weapon".
Meanwhile the civilians of Darfur and other battered parts of Sudan will feel even more defenceless than before.
One thing I do know is that the rest of the continent would feel orphaned, amputated, empty and even defenceless.
You could feel the social pressures that eventually erupted through the dam, driving her to divert her rage against her unfaithful husband on to men in general, and in particular, her sensitive, defenceless 10-year-old son.
We feel nothing but pity for him, that his life was so devoid of love that his only way of finding meaning was to attack a defenceless woman who represented the best of our country in an act of supreme cowardice.
Not long afterwards, Mr Mandela spoke about turning to an armed struggle: "There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violence against a government whose reply is only savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people".
I wanted to catch them going to and from work, and felt that by sitting there on my own, defenceless, they were more likely to stop.
