by Eze Eluchie
As I read through
the US Senate Intelligence Committees Report on the CIA’s use of Torture, what the spy agency craftily refers to as Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT), there is a palpable feeling of astonishment, shock
and disbelief.
The increasing global revulsion and condemnation about the use of diverse torture methods by the US in its treatment of its detainees, is, in the light of the very vociferous nature with which the US condemns those it refers to as rogue States who torture and terrorize people, very much expected. One immediately wonders as to what moral authority the US has to cast aspersions at North Korea, China or any other country for that matter.
The increasing global revulsion and condemnation about the use of diverse torture methods by the US in its treatment of its detainees, is, in the light of the very vociferous nature with which the US condemns those it refers to as rogue States who torture and terrorize people, very much expected. One immediately wonders as to what moral authority the US has to cast aspersions at North Korea, China or any other country for that matter.
The reality
that the United States Government and some of her agencies spend huge sums on
educational programs for law enforcement agencies in other countries, including
mine – Nigeria, under the guise of imparting knowledge of human right issues
and on the need to avoid torture, at a period when the agencies of the US
administration are neck deep in torturing suspects and using unwholesome
interrogation techniques, smirks of blatant hypocrisy.
The release
of this report on the eve of the United Nations International Human Rights day
is quite ironic and devastating.
The United
States needs to urgently rediscover and redefine itself.
Picture: Torture
(electrocution) technique.
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