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.
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.
It was classified as torture by the UN in 1984.
and it was torture before that. it would’ve been torture if the romans had done it.
It wasn’t though, “torture” was almost exclusively understood as extreme, direct physical violence intended to cause severe bodily injury or pain.
The techniques were developed to specifically avoid being called torture.
oh that makes it so much better, that they were torture techniques deliberately and cold-bloodedly developed by the torturers to slip through a legal loophole
They were designed to not be torture. Coercive techniques were also discovered to be ineffective.