Comment on When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz
huf@hexbear.net 1 month agonuance is when you refuse to even recognise torture because the torturers hadnt yet decided to call it torture.
Comment on When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz
huf@hexbear.net 1 month agonuance is when you refuse to even recognise torture because the torturers hadnt yet decided to call it torture.
deHaga@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It was classified as torture by the UN in 1984.
huf@hexbear.net 1 month ago
and it was torture before that. it would’ve been torture if the romans had done it.
deHaga@feddit.uk 1 month 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.
huf@hexbear.net 1 month ago
oh that makes it so much better, that they were torture techniques deliberately and cold-bloodedly developed by the torturers to slip through a legal loophole