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Ämne: Re: I find it extremely hard to believe that dozens of people would condole torture of any kind, let alone think they would pass on an ORDER? to do it?????
Bernice: The UK government through it's military sanctioned the killing of IRA supporters and activists during the Northern Ireland war.
The British invented the concentration camp, during I believe the Boer war.
I find it interesting that in the past the USA considered waterboarding as a war crime and has prosecuted people (eg Yukio Asano, a Japanese officer from WWII).
In its 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. Department of State formally recognized "submersion of the head in water" as torture in its examination of Tunisia's poor human rights record.
Today, the USA are supposed to have banned it's use by the military.... but no such rules cover the CIA!!!