Torture in US, Philippines: We need to be outraged
Torture in US, Philippines: We need to be outraged
Torture — including the most brutal type used by state security forces on suspected “enemies of the state” — is back in media focus both in the United States and the Philippines. And human rights groups are challenging both Presidents Obama and Aquino: “What are you doing about it?”
Last Tuesday, eve of International Human Rights Day, the US Senate intelligence committee released a 500-page executive summary (reportedly “sanitized” by the Central Intelligence Agency) of its 6,000-page report condemning the CIA’s extensive use of torture, since 2002. The torture happened during interrogations of suspected members of the Al Qaida, illegally detained by the American government in secret prisons overseas called “black sites” (more on this in a subsequent column piece).
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