Ikke Bødlen (English: "Not the torturer". Or alternatively "Not the executioner") is a poem by Halfdan Rasmussen, featured as one of the best poems on Human Rights on a 1979 book published by Amnesty International Denmark.

Ikke Bødlen would be later translated into the first verse of Roger Waters' song Each Small Candle [1]

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