UK military 'told to strip prisoners'

[Pak123]

LONDON: British military interrogators are being trained in techniques including sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness to provoke humiliation and fear in prisoners they are questioning, it has been claimed.

Secret training materials tell interrogators they should aim to make prisoners feel insecure, disorientated, exhausted and anxious, the Guardian reported.

The newspaper said it had obtained training materials including a PowerPoint aid created in September 2005, which tells trainee interrogators that prisoners should be stripped before being questioned, saying: "Get them naked. Keep them naked if they do not follow commands."

It said a manual prepared in April 2008 also urges enforced nakedness and suggests that "Cpers", or captured personnel, be kept in conditions of physical discomfort and intimidated.

More recent training material says while prisoners should be allowed to sleep or rest for eight hours a day, they need be permitted only four hours of unbroken sleep. It also suggests that interrogators tell prisoners they will be held incommunicado unless they answer questions.

The 1949 Geneva Conventions prohibit "physical or moral coercion" techniques in interrogations as well as the humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees.

The classified training material was reportedly all produced after the death of Baha Mousa, the Iraqi hotel receptionist, who died in custody in September 2003 after suffering 93 separate injuries.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "The Baha Mousa inquiry is examining in detail the MoD's current detention practices, including the training of tactical questioning and interrogation and the MoD has given evidence on this subject.

"This evidence is a matter of public record and it would be inappropriate for us to comment further outside that forum. We are committed to learning all possible lessons from the inquiry and are giving it our full support."

The Guardian said courses were run by interrogators operating within a military unit known as F Branch, part of the Joint Services Intelligence Organisation (Jsio), at the Jsio's Bedfordshire headquarters. The material advises interrogators to find a discreet place to conduct interrogations, preferably somewhere that looks "nasty", such as a shipping container which is "out of hearing" and "away from media".

UK military ''told to strip prisoners'' - GEO.tv

 

[no_name]

lol time to learn meditation from monks and yogis. If you are really advanced you can go for days.

 

[Vassnti]

Article 4 defines prisoners of war to include:
4.1.1 Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict and members of militias of such armed forces
4.1.2 Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, provided that they fulfill all of the following conditions:
that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance (there are limited exceptions to this among countries who observe the 1977 Protocol I);
that of carrying arms openly;
that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.


You dress as a civilain and hide your weapons, dont start crying about Geneva conventions they dont apply.

 

[CardSharp]

Article 4 defines prisoners of war to include:
4.1.1 Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict and members of militias of such armed forces
4.1.2 Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, provided that they fulfill all of the following conditions:
that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance (there are limited exceptions to this among countries who observe the 1977 Protocol I);
that of carrying arms openly;
that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.


You dress as a civilain and hide your weapons, dont start crying about Geneva conventions they dont apply.

The Geneva convention as a set of rules to prevent abuse of prisoners is outdated and irrelevant. If you are in a uniform, you are in a major army, if you are in a major army chances you won't going up against a uniformed force. So what does the Geneva convention mean when wars are no longer fought wearing uniforms?

 

[BATMAN]

The day Pakistan drop its guard. We will also be stripped in same way.
Pakistan need to strengthen its defences and getting rid of traitors will be the best ever step.

 

[no_name]

The Geneva convention as a set of rules to prevent abuse of prisoners is outdated and irrelevant. If you are in a uniform, you are in a major army, if you are in a major army chances you won't going up against a uniformed force. So what does the Geneva convention mean when wars are no longer fought wearing uniforms?

And also it doesn't mean alot in the context of agents from a country operating illegally in another country.

 

[Vassnti]

So what does the Geneva convention mean when wars are no longer fought wearing uniforms?

Al Qaeda and the Iraqi insurgents defy all the rules enshrined and symbolized by the Geneva Convention (and, often, the Koran), and yet administration critics piously demand that these thugs should be given all the benefits that come with being a signatory to it.

Well, if the barbarians get all of the benefits of the Geneva Convention without obeying any of its rules, then it becomes not merely quaint, not merely worthless, but instead a useful tool for those who wish to overthrow all it stands for.

Jonah Goldberg on al Qaeda on National Review Online