Humiliate, strip, threaten: UK military interrogation manuals discovered

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Source: The Guardian

The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian has discovered.

Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators they should aim to provoke humiliation, insecurity, disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear in the prisoners they are questioning, and suggest ways in which this can be achieved.

One PowerPoint training aid created in September 2005 tells trainee military interrogators that prisoners should be stripped before they are questioned. "Get them naked," it says. "Keep them naked if they do not follow commands." Another manual prepared around the same time advises the use of blindfolds to put prisoners under pressure.

A manual prepared in April 2008 suggests that "Cpers" – captured personnel – be kept in conditions of physical discomfort and intimidated. Sensory deprivation is lawful, it adds, if there are "valid operational reasons". It also urges enforced nakedness.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/25/uk-military-interrogation-manuals

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Sighhhh....

[global1]

1. What An Appropriate Picture You Have Accompanying Your Post.....

both of the main war criminals together. It would really be nice to see them in orange suits and in some jail somewhere.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Those 2 look like they are in love.

I am series.

[wuvuj]

11. I am non-sequential....

...

[Capitalocracy]

2. Not a coincidence that they're all naked in the photos

Also not a coincidence that the prisoners in our client military dictatorship in Argentina were kept naked in the 70s.

[Heywood J]

3. 5th rec for you.

Here's to hoping someone ends up in the Hague for writing that.

[Solly Mack]

4. k/r

[Arrowhead2k1]

5. How long until this reaches the American MSM?

My guess is never.

[Downwinder]

7. Maybe someone will leak training aids from Fort Huachuca.

[OnyxCollie]

8. K&R. nt

[Iowa]

9. K&R

[felix_numinous]

10. K & R

The effect of humiliation and torture spreads to everyone who witnesses it. It is meant to psychologically intimidate people into submission and a sense of powerlessness.

It is also to teach people how little life is worth, and that we are all expendable.