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ec. 16, p4
A survey by the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has found that the number of torture cases involving National Police personnel has increased over the years.
'The number has kept on increasing in the past four years, albeit not too drastically. This year alone, we have 108 cases of torture,' Kontras deputy coordinator Chrisbiantoro said on Monday.
Your comments:
Based on the CIA torture report recently disclosed, the bombshell report revealed that the American government had approved the torture of prisoners, some of whom were wrongfully imprisoned and held without due process or even public acknowledgment. An earlier report found that some detainees were held indefinitely at least in part because the CIA about the circumstances of their detention.
When we allow fear and uncertainty to drive our policy, the consequences can haunt us forever. In the saddest news of all, of the world's nations helped run the program.
The Senate report makes it clear that 'enhanced interrogation techniques' is simply a euphemism.
Interrogators also staged executions and made threats to hurt detainee's children or rape and murder their mothers, a common form of psychological torture that has been a mainstay of totalitarian regimes for centuries.
As the saying goes, 'What's good for the goose is good for the gander.' Many of the 'torture' techniques are surely sponsored and endorsed by other governments.
Willo
