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Originally posted by Not Me
Where do you get this humiliation=torture?
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The Convention on the Prevention of Torture defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind..."
The Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners spefically prohibits "humiliating and degrading treatment."
Given this, your suggestion that anything short of rape or murder does not violate the Geneva Convention is dead wrong. Equally dead wrong is your psycho-brethren's argument that the Geneva Convention does not apply here because the prisoners in Abu Ghraib are "illegal combatants." The Bush Administration and the US military have specifically rejected this contention as to all persons captured in Iraq, regardless of whether they were uniformed or non-uniformed.
Grinning over a dead body is not a violation of the GC, I believe. Making the body dead in the first place is. Photographing yourself with your victim tends to suggest that you did not believe that you were violating orders.
