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.
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.
yes you are, and now you’re lying about it too
Quote me where I defended anything. It was not considered torture at the time.
by the legal experts of the UK. who are irrelevant for determining what is torture in reality. this is you defending torture.
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.
this is not a court of law. we’re capable of recognising torture without your precious courts defining it for us.
But incapable of understanding nuance
nuance is when you refuse to even recognise torture because the torturers hadnt yet decided to call it torture.