Don't Let Torture Become the Norm
Phillip Butler, retired Navy Commander, begins: "Many peace and justice organizations have been promoting and demonstrating lately for awareness of torture and related issues. I'm amazed and profoundly disappointed that this has apparently become necessary in our country. I spent eight years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, from 1965 to 1973. During that time, I and more than 90 percent of my fellow POWs were repeatedly tortured for the extortion of information to be used for political propaganda and sometimes just for retribution. We were not recognized by Vietnam as POWs, but as criminals, because the Vietnamese had not signed the 1949 'Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.'"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013007M.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geneva+Convention
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013007M.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geneva+Convention
rudkla - 30. Jan, 16:03
