Kneecapping
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Kneecapping is a form of malicious wounding, often as criminal punishment or torture, in which the victim is injured in the knee, often using a firearm or power drill to damage the knee joint and kneecap.[1][2]
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This practice was common among paramilitaries in Italy and Northern Ireland and has been reported from Gaza.[3] Contrary to popular belief, the patella (knee cap) is usually not injured in these incidents; rather damage to soft tissues that include nerves and arteries is the primary target.[4][5]
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- ^ The Shankill butchers: the real story of cold-blooded mass murder By Martin Dillon. London: Hutchinson 1989.
- ^ Kneecapping Segen's Medical Dictionary. Retrieved: 2011-06-20.
- ^ Erlanger, Steven (15 July 2007). "A Life of Unrest". The Times Magazine. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/magazine/15HAMAS-t.html. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
- ^ "Nixon JR. "Knee-capping". Low velocity gunshot wounds of the knee: a review of eighty-six such injuries treated at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Dissertation for the Degree MCh(Orth), University of Liverpool, 1975." (PDF). http://www.jbjs.org.uk/cgi/reprint/71-B/5/739.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
- ^ "Kneecapping". Aliciapatterson.org. 1972-07-17. http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF0305/Conroy/Conroy.html. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
[edit] External links
- "Punishment beatings: A grip of fear". BBC. 1999-01-25. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/northern_ireland/focus/262543.stm.
- Kneecapping of 14-year-old causes outcry
- Northern Ireland kneecapping victim 'shot four times'
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