Brian Foley
10-30-07, 02:38 AM
Doctors, Torture, and the War (http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m37628&hd=&size=1&l=e)
Physicians are reported to have advised interrogators as to whether particular prisoners were fit enough to survive physical maltreatment, informed interrogators about prisoners' phobias and other psychological vulnerabilities that could be exploited during questioning, failed to report incidents of alleged torture, force-fed prisoners who were on hunger strikes, and altered the death certificates of prisoners who died.
Medical professionals who continue to collaborate in torture, and stay in places like Guantanamo, have a very specific reason for continuing to be a part of this criminal process. It gives them an enormous sense of power, protected and enhanced by their belief that by being torture enablers, they are truly doing something patriotic.Torture has become more sophisticated, thanks to the work of these 21st Century medical professionals .
Physicians are reported to have advised interrogators as to whether particular prisoners were fit enough to survive physical maltreatment, informed interrogators about prisoners' phobias and other psychological vulnerabilities that could be exploited during questioning, failed to report incidents of alleged torture, force-fed prisoners who were on hunger strikes, and altered the death certificates of prisoners who died.
Medical professionals who continue to collaborate in torture, and stay in places like Guantanamo, have a very specific reason for continuing to be a part of this criminal process. It gives them an enormous sense of power, protected and enhanced by their belief that by being torture enablers, they are truly doing something patriotic.Torture has become more sophisticated, thanks to the work of these 21st Century medical professionals .