The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli #army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, #waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.
#war #terror #MiddleEast #warfare #politics #crime #humanRights #torture #news #uno #problem #military #Palestine #gaza
#Bush hat zugegeben, dass er Folter wie #waterboarding angeordnet hat und es gibt deswegen nicht einmal Ermittlungen.
Human Rights Watch
(...) The September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were foremost a tragedy for the nearly 3,000 victims and their families. (...)
Compounding this tragedy, the horror of the attacks spawned an abusive reaction that reverberates to this day. Instead of reaffirming the human rights standards that prohibit such instrumental cruelty, the administration of President George W. Bush shredded them. The American people, appalled and frightened by the magnitude of the attacks, didn’t adequately push back. Often, because so much was done in secret, they didn’t even know, at least until much later. (...)
The brutal mistreatment of suspects, such as by waterboarding, was papered over with the euphemism “enhanced interrogation techniques.” (...)
The effect of this indifference to human rights sparked emulation elsewhere. Brutal rulers figured out that the best way to get away with mass abuse was to label it a fight against “terrorism.” The Chinese government uses that line to justify detaining 1 million Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang until they abandon Islam, their culture, and their language. Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt have each detained tens of thousands of people under that rationale despite, typically, an utter lack of evidence. The Israeli government uses it to justify the 14-year-long closure and periodic bombing of the people of Gaza.
Beyond the abuses themselves, was the conceptual damage. Rather than using law enforcement means to address the horrible crimes of September 11, the Bush administration declared a “global war on terror” that extended to every corner of the earth, far beyond the borders of Afghanistan, where the Al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, was believed to be hiding. That purportedly allowed detaining suspects found anywhere as “enemy combatants” without charge or trial until the “war” ended, meaning, potentially, forever. That laid the groundwork for indefinite detentions at Guantanamo Bay.
The “war” paradigm was also used to justify killing suspects wherever they were found, often on the flimsiest of evidence. (...)
A more enlightened approach to countering terrorism would have enlisted Muslim communities. Most Muslims in the United States were appalled by the perversion of Islam that Al-Qaeda used to justify the September 11 and other attacks. Globally, Muslims are the primary victims of terrorism. Yet from the Bush to the Barack Obama and Donald Trump administrations, Muslims as a whole were treated with varying degrees of suspicion, subjected to police surveillance, profiled for interrogation, targeted for entrapment, locked up as “material witnesses.” (...)
The US government’s quest to maintain impunity for torture is also the main reason why none of the five alleged planners of the September 11 attacks has been tried. (...) But the US government wanted to dispense with due-process protections and avoid its torture becoming public, and to use as much as possible the fruits of that torture. So rather than send the September 11 suspects to a traditional court, it devised special “military commissions”, a “justice” system concocted from scratch, stacked against the defense, and fundamentally unfair. (...)
It is a time to condemn the evil of terrorism. It is also the time to close Guantanamo, by releasing all of the 39 aging detainees still there, who have not been charged, and giving the rest a fair trial in a proper court. It is time, as much as still possible, to prosecute those who ordered the secret detention and torture, and to release the full Senate Intelligence Committee report on this despicable program. And it is time formally to end the “global war on terror”, to admit that, in the absence of a genuine armed conflict, terrorism offenses can be fought like any other serious crime within the confines of international human rights law, without the endless detention and summary killings that have plagued this forever “war.”
> See also: Twenty Years On: The Legacy of 9/11 (Human Rights Watch)
A man stands in the rubble after the collapse of the first World Trade Center Tower in New York City on September 11, 2001.
© 2001 DOUG KANTER/AFP via Getty Images.
Tags: #9-11 #terrorism #terrorist_attack #war_on_terror #human_rights #human_rights_abuse #torture #waterboarding #enhanced_interrogation_techniques #justice #guantanamo #ennemy_combatant #china #uygurs #xinjiang #turkey #erdogan #egypt sisi #el-sisi #israel #gaza #occupied_terrotories #state_of_law #al_quaeda #osama_bin_laden #extra_judicial_killings #drone_attacks
source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html
Twenty-one years earlier, in 1947, the United States charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for carrying out another form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian. The subject was strapped on a stretcher that was tilted so that his feet were in the air and head near the floor, and small amounts of water were poured over his face, leaving him gasping for air until he agreed to talk.
#history #justice #CIA #torture #military #fail #news #Japan
I have now asked the #Intelligence Community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days.
Even if the intelligence services use #waterboarding to extort a confession from a Chinese man, that is just as implausible as the Chinese #government's denial.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQrNaet6Fa8
some well-said #interesting points and #comparisons made in the first 5 minutes or so about [spoiler] #masks #control #obey #torture #guantanamobay #terrorism #noyou #transientsuffocation #waterboarding #psyop #psychologicalwarfare #authoritarianism
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