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Torture
trnsz:
Excerpts from ... Torture:
"Techniques described in the November 18 ABC News report?prolonged forced standing, sleep deprivation, and exposure to cold?are illegal and may possibly amount to torture. These techniques were used by Soviet and North Korean interrogators, and have been reported more recently in Egypt, Burma, Iran and Turkey. This backgrounder provides descriptions of these techniques and their effects ? both historical examples and accounts from the State Department?s own human rights reports."
"The Washington Times reported last year that ?some of the most feared forms of torture? cited by survivors of the North Korean gulag ?were surprisingly mundane: Guards would force inmates to stand perfectly still for hours at a time, or make them perform exhausting repetitive exercises such as standing up and sitting down until they collapsed from fatigue.? (?Nightmares from the North; Korean son recounts life in dictatorship,? Benjamin Hu, The Washington Times, April 30, 2004.) "
"In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksander Solzhenitsen describes Soviet interrogations including cases of forced standing and sleep deprivation: ?Then there is the method of simply compelling a prisoner to stand there.? Among other techniques used to break prisoners was forcing them to stay in a fixed position for an extended period of time."
"Pakistan: In the country reports, the State Department noted that prolonged isolation and denial of food or sleep were common torture methods."
"Tunisia: In the country reports, the State Department said that tactics such as food and sleep deprivation or confinement to a tiny, unlit cell were commonly used in Tunisia."
"Turkey: The State Department stated that torture is a regular practice in Turkey. According to the 2001 country report, some of the methods of torture employed by Turkish security forces included prolonged standing and isolation."
Just an excerpt from the relevant stuff. Sounds alot like iso at WWASPS to me! :flame:
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trnsz:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation ... id=1322866 is the main story, I picked up the info from Human Rights Watch at http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/21/usdom12071.htm
Bola:
"News report?prolonged forced standing, sleep deprivation, and exposure to cold?are illegal and may possibly amount to torture. "
hey i can honestly say "exposure to cold" was never an issue for those of us in samoa.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-12-01 06:43:00, Bola wrote:
""News report?prolonged forced standing, sleep deprivation, and exposure to cold?are illegal and may possibly amount to torture. "
hey i can honestly say "exposure to cold" was never an issue for those of us in samoa. "
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It was (still is) an issue, however, for the kids imprisoned in Spring Creek Lodge, Montana. In the WWASPS vs. PURE trial, a parent described how his son was kept in isolation for nearly 8 months. The boy managed to sneak in an orange, so he'd have something to eat in there besides the limited diet given to prisoners kept in solitary confinement. That orange was completely frozen by morning. Other survivors of SCL described being forced to jump into a lake in the middle of the winter (after breaking the ice).
WWASPS is making big money out of torturing children. Where is their accountability? Why aren't they tried and punished for their crimes?
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