With my call for the formal abolition of torture (practice/reality /should follow), I also happen to recall something about a prize for the 1st one to give a reasoned foundation for exactly the Total Abolition of Torture, (let's say early 90s, my years in Sr. High School), also along with reading a book over Amnesty International as kind of history "less than 100 pages" and something with 21 statutes in it. Am I correct?
The book is probably, at 144 pages:
"We have a suspect", The Amnesty International Handbook Amnesty International Staff (Author), Marie Staunton (Editor) written in the 80s.
I may recommend that you also buy:
Torture in the Eighties (Amnesty International Report) [Paperback], Amnesty International (Author).
By the feat of identifying this reasoned foundation for "the Abolition",
by obligation too:
There is a Nobel Peace Prize and there is a Nobel Peace Prize Committee!
"By this, "the Abolition"..., I know!" - Olsnes-Lea
(I hope you are able to smile with me in some time to come, me not lying 6 ft. under!)
Originally written at 14. Jan. 2013 with some "last" comment added some minutes ago today.
ReplyDeleteGiven My Argument for Total Prohibition of Torture by Overwhelming Military Force and Technology
ReplyDeleteFacts about torture: only ethical and moral people can stand hard torture! Suggesting they have ethical and moral force and therefore are not needed to torture unless violating international agreement on treatment of P.O.W.s
The unethical and immoral people, however, they are interrogated the most easily. You only need to threaten them with torture and possibly roughen them up in the process to make them talk and in addition, you can set them up for one small dose of e.g. opiates and then wait some and then they start squealing like the kids and talk comes out in streams for their usual addiction to whatever that is found on them on the combat field!