International Human Rights

November 16, 2005 · Filed Under Advertisement · Comment
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Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, National Police Chief of South Vietnam, executing the suspected leader of a Vietcong commando unit, Saigon, Vietnam, February 1, 1968. image source : Eddie Adams

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Amnesty International’s 1973 torture report, referring to the conflict in Vietnam, suggested that “an administration defending itself against what it or its major ally construes to be an insurrectionary movement may regrettably find it hard to resist the expedient of torture in its efforts to crush its elusive opponent”. It also stated that “the brutalizing effects of the Vietnam War have become so entrenched that some of the time the use of torture during interrogation is no longer even motivated by a desire to gather ‘intelligence’.” The slippery slope from limited authorization of torture to a wider tolerance of such methods is a part of the landscape of this human rights violation. – Amnesty International