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Six months after the end of the Sri Lankan army’s assault on Tamil Tiger-controlled territory in northern Sri Lanka (See SchNEWS 676), over a quarter of a million Tamils remain incarcerated in internment camps. Conditions in...
Tortured: A girl of 12 kept a diary of the sadistic punishment rituals her mother subjected her to A girl of 12 kept a diary of the mental and physical torture she suffered at the hands of her mother, who believed in the...
R ick Hillier, one of the powerful figures at the epicentre of the prisoner torture storm, has a revealing quirk. Question what happened in Afghanistan under his command and the former chief of defence staff talks about what...
Forces manual issued last year spells out why winning locals' trust is key to stopping insurgents – and why torture puts that at risk Campbell Clark Ottawa — From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's military wants the U.S. to provide satellite equipment and imagery so it can hunt thousands of Islamist separatists who are killing Thai troops and civilians with hidden roadside bombs in the south.
By DAVID GAMBACORTA Philadelphia Daily News West Philadelphia bar owner Clinton Harriott remembers well the torture that four sadistic kidnappers inflicted upon him on a humid summer afternoon two years ago. But for the life of...
The Cartoons that Shook the World , by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20) In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not...
One can only fear for Tony Blair after last Thursday's European summit at Brussels. For the truth is that evidence continues to amass that, under the Blair premiership, the British state was responsible, at times, for some...
LONDON: The High Court has flatly rejected claims by the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, that releasing evidence of the CIA's inhuman and unlawful treatment of the British resident Binyam Mohamed would harm Britain's...
Geneva - The United Nations Committee against Torture called on Yemen on Friday to end the widespread torture of detainees and investigate allegations of unlawful killings by its security forces. It voiced concern at reports of...
