During the Dirty War in Argentina from 1976–1983, detention centers caused an immense amount of fear for victims all throughout the country. The prisoners, after being kidnapped and interrogated, would be forced to survive while living amongst the worst of conditions in a variety of different centers. Once the kidnapped were forced into detention centers, they immediately became the disappeared (Spanish: los desaparecidos). Although all camps had their "unique" ways of torturing, every detention center incorporated a torture room that each victim had to encounter. However, the torture did not end here. They were humiliated and dehumanized by the hands of the leaders, losing their ability to talk, shower, eat, and sleep. The Dirty War and select detention centers were notorious for mass murders to remove all evidence of the torture that had transpired. At the end of the Dirty War and a change in government, prisoners were released on the street blindfolded. The identity of the torturers in all of the detention centers was kept clandestinely at all times.