RE: Is Obama guilty of war crimes?
January 10, 2014 at 5:03 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2014 at 5:06 pm by Mudhammam.)
(January 10, 2014 at 3:14 pm)là bạn điên Wrote:(January 10, 2014 at 2:27 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: What? The US has prosecuted other individuals under war crimes for waterboarding but when the US does it the law changes? Drowning someone clearly fits the definition of torture as defined by the Convention Against Torture, among others.
Who have the US prosecuted for war crimes for waterboarding?
The U.S. military hung Japanese soliders for waterboarding American POWs in the Second World War. Per Wiki, "In 1947, the United States prosecuted a Japanese civilian who had served in World War II as an interpreter for the Japanese military, Yukio Asano, for "Violation of the Laws and Customs of War," asserting that he "did unlawfully take and convert to his own use Red Cross packages and supplies intended for" prisoners, but, far worse, that he also "did willfully and unlawfully mistreat and torture" prisoners of war. Asano received a sentence of 15 years of hard labor. [122] The charges against Asano included "beating using hands, fists, club; kicking; water torture; burning using cigarettes; strapping on a stretcher head downward." [201] The specifications in the charges with regard to "water torture" consisted of "pouring water up [the] nostrils" of one prisoner, "forcing water into [the] mouths and noses" of two other prisoners, and "forcing water into [the] nose" of a fourth prisoner." Waterboarding is drowning someone without letting them drown. Read the definition of torture under the acts ratified by Congress and the military's own manual as I've cited. Why do you think the Bush administration had lawyers write the "Torture Memos"? They were trying to circumvent well established guidelines for combat and treaties prohibiting torture that are recognized by all major industrialized Western nations.
