Torture
It seems that the USA doesn't have the monopoly on torture.
From the
Financial Times comes this link to a United Nations report.
UN envoy claims torture widespread in China
The use of torture in China is widespread, and frequently carried out by police who exercise “wide discretion” within the country's under-developed legal system, a United Nations special envoy said on Friday.
Manfred Nowak, UN special rapporteur on torture, said police often resorted to torture in the early stages of detaining subjects as they came “under heavy pressure to produce confessions”. Techniques such as beatings and sleep deprivation by police and other security authorities focused on “breaking the will” of individuals, thus creating a “general culture of fear”, he said.
China needed to overhaul its legal system to ensure fair trials and see that detainees were not held under vaguely worded security laws, Mr Nowak said. He also accused the government of obstructing his investigations.
Mr Nowak’s findings, after an unprecedented two-week mission to China, also show poor legal protections for detainees, who often include ethnic minorities, political dissidents, religious activists and Falun Gong believers.
Questions about this? Just ask a Tibetan.
You
do remember that Free Tibet bumper sticker on the back of your VW Microbus.
And how would you feel if the USA decided to send troops in there to rescue the Tibetans and reinstate the Dali Lama as their leader. Would that be a "just" war? Would the US have the moral high-ground? And what are you doing to reinstate democracy in Tibet?
Does your brain hurt? Good! That is called Thinking.
Some people do it every day... For fun!
Posted by DaveH at December 2, 2005 8:20 PM