Is torture in any form ever justified to gain information for a specific cause? Even if that cause is for good or for bad intentions? Many would state that torture is justified as a last resort or others deem it as inhumane. Torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession.1 Torture has the negative effect of dehumanizing a civilization individual but on the other hand torture can be useful in getting information out of hostage taking criminals.
Beatings and physical violence, blinding with light, bone breaking, branding, castration, glasgow smile, and chinese water torture are just the few ways that someone can be tortured.
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is an example in which torture was used ranging from sexual assault/humiliation, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, solitary confinement/isolation, forced medication, temperature extremes, watching others being tortured and psychological techniques.
Many of the interrogators were trained by Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) or had experience in the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA). SERE was a program to train military personnel who have been caught as prisoners of war to withstand torture during interrogation. Military personnel went through programs of beatings, starvation, stress positions, and so. The SERE program was established after years of experimentation by the CIA and the other four branches of the U.S. military. It was founded during the Cold War when 36 US air men gave false confessions during the Korean War.2 President Obama on his second day signed an executive order to close Guantanamo. He also signed an executive order outlawing aggressive interrogation techniques. So as a country we will no longer perform torture to
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"Torture Techniques Used in Guantanamo." The Justice Campaign Supporting Human Rights
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prisoners but still continue to do so as a last resort. An example of the usage of last resort was the waterboarding ( waterboarding induces panic and suffering by forcing a person to inhale water into the sinuses, pharynx, larynx, and trachea3) that we used in the bin Laden case. It began with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who broke under the pressure of harsh interrogation techniques that included waterboarding. He gave information including name of a trusted courier of bin Laden.
As Obama stated that they would no longer continue to use torture, unfortunately in
August 2014 the C.I.A was using wrongful interrogation forms for terrorism suspects after 9/11.
The C.I.A also mislead the Bush administration officials and Congress about the extent and nature of the torture, and that torture was ineffective for intelligence gathering. The President allowed the use of torture for the C.I.A and is allowing people such as, George Tenet the
Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, to go ahead and protest what he signed to be prohibited. As this report became worldwide issue from multiple countries gave their opinions on the situation that the US has applied to torture. One of the countries that replied were China: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hong Lei told reporters Wednesday: "China consistently opposes torture. We believe that the U.S. side should reflect upon and rectify its relevant behavior, earnestly obey and implement the provisions of international conventions. In a
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ON TORTURE This paper will systematically investigate different positions taken on the moral permissibility of torture, to reveal that torture is not to be accepted or justified under any circumstance. In order to effectively address the matter, we ought to come to definitional terms with “torture”, despite the lack of unanimity and the spread of contextual usage of the term. For the scope of this paper, the term “torture” will be adopted to refer to any act by which mental or physical pain…
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years later brought the issue of Algerian suffering and the October 17th demonstration back into the public domain. Both texts can be considered very useful regarding the depth of rich detail they go into, detailing specific methods of French torture and exactly how Algerians were being marginalised in Paris. However, contextual factors outside these texts can also help to explain the repressive machinery in use and the opposition to it. The role of history and French tradition should not be underestimated…
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great that it made Stalin's great purges seem constrained and small scale. Although being coercive to the extreme, Saddam also displayed elements of authoritative leadership with the establishment of torture cells. Initially he coerced senior members of his party to carry out killings and torture as a ploy to ostracise them from their tribal roots and increase their dependency on the Presidency, but he eventually left the running of the cells to his subordinates and they began to flourish. By…
