Does Torture Work?
Yunji Kim
English 102
Professor Harkness
10/24/12
RE 1 Revised
Does Torture Work?: Is it really one effective way?
Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney 2007) accuse of what was going on behind the curtain in Abu Ghraib. Dilawar, the innocent taxi driver who took 3 passengers for a taxi ride, has been under detention with harsh torture under the purpose of getting information, and died. The military police Thomas Curtis, who was at Bagram says, “My memory of Dilawar was chained up with the hooded up and no sleeping.”. This is obviously the opposite way what Geneva Convention set up as a goal. However, the American president Bush rose up the question that whether the suspected terrorist should be protected by laws like Geneva Convention. And the government gave the legal cover for certain organizations allowing torture which previously forbidden. However, does torture really work? Despite all those risky issues around the world, does torture is really the one of the most effective ways getting information from detainees? I’ll show you that torture is definitely not the effective way to get information.
First, torture does not ensure us that the confession from suspects is reliable. However, does information which was from the detainees who had gotten tortured really reliable? Tony Lagourains, the military interrogator who put into the Iraq war for interrogating suspects says, “It is very difficult to get confession if there is barely evidence on the suspected guy. So you start using harsher and harsher techniques to get the confession.” Imagine that you are under detention, surrounded what you feel fearful all around and got tortured. It is quite obvious you will say anything regardless of what is true, just for stopping all the pain and fearful feeling. There are some cases has been reported that people forced to confess, suffered from physical interrogation. In the early 20th century, police believed that they need some physical interrogation was
English 102
Professor Harkness
10/24/12
RE 1 Revised
Does Torture Work?: Is it really one effective way?
Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney 2007) accuse of what was going on behind the curtain in Abu Ghraib. Dilawar, the innocent taxi driver who took 3 passengers for a taxi ride, has been under detention with harsh torture under the purpose of getting information, and died. The military police Thomas Curtis, who was at Bagram says, “My memory of Dilawar was chained up with the hooded up and no sleeping.”. This is obviously the opposite way what Geneva Convention set up as a goal. However, the American president Bush rose up the question that whether the suspected terrorist should be protected by laws like Geneva Convention. And the government gave the legal cover for certain organizations allowing torture which previously forbidden. However, does torture really work? Despite all those risky issues around the world, does torture is really the one of the most effective ways getting information from detainees? I’ll show you that torture is definitely not the effective way to get information.
First, torture does not ensure us that the confession from suspects is reliable. However, does information which was from the detainees who had gotten tortured really reliable? Tony Lagourains, the military interrogator who put into the Iraq war for interrogating suspects says, “It is very difficult to get confession if there is barely evidence on the suspected guy. So you start using harsher and harsher techniques to get the confession.” Imagine that you are under detention, surrounded what you feel fearful all around and got tortured. It is quite obvious you will say anything regardless of what is true, just for stopping all the pain and fearful feeling. There are some cases has been reported that people forced to confess, suffered from physical interrogation. In the early 20th century, police believed that they need some physical interrogation was