Under sedation
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What does 'under sedation" mean in:
The corpses were cremated or interred clandestinely as unidentified bodies in municipal cemeteries. They were also abandoned at roadsides, thrown in rivers, and even flung from planes at sea under sedation
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It does not apply to corpses, but prisoners. BUENOS AIRES, March 10— Many of the victims were so weak from torture and detention that they had to be helped aboard the plane. Once in flight, they were injected with a sedative by an Argentine Navy doctor before two officers stripped them and shoved them to their deaths.
- It does not apply to corpses, but prisoners.
- BUENOS AIRES, March 10— Many of the victims were so weak from torture and detention that they had to be helped aboard the plane.
- Once in flight, they were injected with a sedative by an Argentine Navy doctor before two officers stripped them and shoved them to their deaths.
- Now, one of those officers has acknowledged that he pushed 30 prisoners out of planes flying over the Atlantic Ocean during the right-wing military Government's violent crackdown in the 1970's.
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It does not apply to corpses, but prisoners.
BUENOS AIRES, March 10— Many of the victims were so weak from torture and detention that they had to be helped aboard the plane. Once in flight, they were injected with a sedative by an Argentine Navy doctor before two officers stripped them and shoved them to their deaths.
Now, one of those officers has acknowledged that he
0under sedation describes a person who has been given a sedative to relax or tranquilize them.
A person can be under sedation.
A corpse can't be under sedation, although your article mistakenly says this.
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