Comment on When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz
deHaga@feddit.uk 22 hours agoIt 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 21 hours 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
deHaga@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
They were designed to not be torture. Coercive techniques were also discovered to be ineffective.
huf@hexbear.net 21 hours ago
they were designed to slip below the legal definition of torture, which is not what anyone is talking about except you, in your desperate attempt to shift blame away from the torturers.
because the actual meaning of the word is something like this: The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
note how there’s no reference to the UN or the laws of the UK.
deHaga@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
I’m not making any attempts, desperate or otherwise. I’m just stating facts.
You are just using presentism to make your point, which is moot.