Comment on When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz

• huf@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  nuance is when you refuse to even recognise torture because the torturers hadnt yet decided to call it torture.

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was classified as torture by the UN in 1984.

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    • huf@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      and it was torture before that. it would’ve been torture if the romans had done it.

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      • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It wasn’t though, “torture” was almost exclusively understood as extreme, direct physical violence intended to cause severe bodily injury or pain.

        The techniques were developed to specifically avoid being called torture.

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