Editing Garrote (section)

==Assassination weapon==
[[File:Fomfr garrote.jpg|thumb|From the torture museum of [[Freiburg im Breisgau]]]]

A garrote can be made of different materials, including ropes, [[Textile|cloth]], [[cable tie]]s, fishing lines, nylon, guitar strings, telephone cord or [[piano wire]].<ref name=NEW/><ref name=WHI>Whittaker, Wayne, ''Tough Guys'', Popular Mechanics, February 1943, Vol. 79 No. 2, pp. 44</ref><ref name=STE>Steele, David E., ''Silent Sentry Removal'', Black Belt Magazine, August 1986, Vol. 24 No. 8, pp. 48–49</ref> A stick may be used to tighten the garrote; the Spanish word refers to the stick itself.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |title=garrote {{!}} Diccionario de la lengua española |trans-title=Spanish language dictionary |url=https://dle.rae.es/garrote |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=«Diccionario de la lengua española» - Edición del Tricentenario |publisher=[[Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española]] (ASALE) |language=es |quote=Palo grueso y fuerte que puede manejarse a modo de bastón. (Thick, hard stick used as a walking cane.)}}</ref> In Spanish, the term may also refer to a rope and stick used to constrict a limb as a torture device.<ref name=NEW/><ref name=DRAE>''[http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?TIPO_HTML=2&TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=garrote#0_7 garrote] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007223842/http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?TIPO_HTML=2&TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=garrote#0_7 |date=2017-10-07 }}'', 7th sense, ''[[Diccionario de la Real Academia Española]]''.</ref>

Since [[World War II]], the garrote has been regularly employed as a weapon by soldiers as a silent means of killing sentries and other enemy personnel.<ref name=WHI/><ref name=STE/> Instruction in the use of purpose-built and improvised garrottes is included in the training of many elite military units and special forces.<ref name=STE/> A typical military garrote consists of two wooden handles attached to a length of flexible wire; the wire is looped over a sentry's head and pulled taut in one motion.<ref name=WHI/><ref name=STE/> Soldiers of the [[French Foreign Legion]] have used a particular type of double-loop garrote (referred to as ''la loupe''), where a double coil of rope or cord is dropped around a victim's neck and then pulled taut. Even if the victim pulls on one of the coils, the other is tightened.<ref name=STE/>

Garrote-like assassination techniques were widely employed in 17th- and 18th-century India, particularly by the alleged [[Thuggee]] cult.<ref name=NEW/> Practitioners used a yellow silk or cloth scarf called a [[rumāl]].<ref name=NEW/> The Indian version of the garrote frequently incorporates a knot at the center intended to aid in crushing the [[larynx]], decreasing the communication capabilities of the victim, while someone applies pressure to the victim's back, usually using a foot or knee.