Previously secret military files reveal links between the use of torture by British forces in Oman and Northern Ireland during the 1970s.
Previously secret military files reveal links between the use of torture by British forces in Oman and Northern Ireland during the 1970s.
It’s literally in the quote. Now banned, meaning it wasn’t banned at the time.
Do you have difficulty reading? This is a historical recalling of a past event, not the opening statement of a legal case. The only judgement that is passed is a moral one, and those do not have an expirations date. We can and should condemn past wrongs on the basis of historical learning and more advanced ethics. This is the whole basis of progress.
Do I have difficulty? How ironic
why are you stuck on the current illegality of this? you seem to think it’s not right to condemn their actions because they were legal at the time. extremely weird take.
but tell me, was it legal back then to do a coup and install a dictator and annex a bit of land?
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autism makes you rush to defend past torture done by the UK? weird.
The headline is wrong. They used interrogation techniques.
oh wow, you’re going with the “enhanced interrogation” bullshit? how’s it feel to be a torture defender?
I’m not defending anything.
The Roman Inquisition used torture as an interrogation technique. Those are overlapping categories and can both apply to the same thing separately. And I sincerely doubt that it’s autism that’s giving you so much trouble here
The 5 Techniques were standard British military interrogation methods. There was public outcry after they were used in Northern Ireland in the 70s and were then banned and made illegal.
They were then reclassified as torture by the echr in 1976. That was appealed, successfully, and classified as not torture in 1978
The UN classified them as torture in 1984.
So, the UK did not use torture to control the strait of Hormuz, but did use those techniques illegally in Northern Ireland.