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October 26, 2010

UK Military Accused of Breaching Geneva Conventions
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The Guardian newspaper reports 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 newspaper obtained secret British training materials that tell
interrogators they should aim to provoke humiliation, insecurity,
disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear in the prisoners they are
questioning. The 1949 Geneva Conventions prohibit any "physical or moral
coercion," in particular any coercion employed to obtain information.



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