How Far is Too Far? Torture as an Excuse for Security

In the Oxford dictionary, we define terrorists as people who use terrorism in pursuing political ambition (terrorists, nd). The FBI has identified two types of terrorism: international and domestic. Both include acts that violate federal or state laws and that are likely to affect violent acts or life-threatening acts that might affect the government or civilians. In fact, according to the FBI, the only difference between the two types of terrorism is that it occurs "within the jurisdiction of the United States", whereas the international problem is mainly caused by some way outside the jurisdiction of the United States, It is said to occur in. Border.

Today, too many peaceful protesters have been detained, tortured and raped, after the Syrian government killed more than 11 months of brutal violence and oppression, more than 5,500 deaths, nearly 400 children , Abused. Two weeks later, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution resolved with similar language at a ratio of 137 to 12, including abstention of 17. The resolution constitutes a binding proposal without a Security Council resolution and is not supported by this possibility. Subsequent enforcement measures include approval of the use of force according to Article 42 of the UN Charter. In fact, it has little effect, except to express aversion to the majority of the international community.

Domestic and international torture ban is based on consensus that torture and similar abuses are immoral and impractical and information obtained through torture is far less reliable than information obtained by other techniques It is occurring. Despite these findings and international practices, organizations that monitor human rights violations (eg, International Torture Victim Rehabilitation Councils such as Amnesty International, torture exemption) It is reporting that it is widespread. Amnesty International presumes that at least 81 world governments are currently torturing, but some of them are public

Rehabilitation and compensation are part of the rights of torture survivors under the United Nations treaty, but the necessity of medical treatment, domestically or internationally, is far less than legal and civil claims. In order to better understand the usefulness and limitations of existing evaluation tools and therapies, collaboration to involve survivors themselves is necessary. As in the study by Elsass et al.27, there are several excellent studies that interviewed Tibetan llamas to quantify the pain used to assess the scale of intervention for Tibetan torture survivors.