Category: violence
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Comfort Women Apology Withdrawn
Via Farls at LGM I read that the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has withdrawn the Japanese government’s official 1992 apology for atrocities to “Comfort Women”, enslaved into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. Celtic Dragon runs a longer entry on this, including some gut-wrenching, absolutely nauseating first-hand testimony. What a horrible,…
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Yes, we torture
According to Col. Stuart Herrington. Via Sully.
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Battle of Algiers
Finally saw Battle of Algiers last night … magnificent! It will reward repeated viewing. Of course, the torture and counterinsurgency techniques depicted seem, with certain exceptions, relatively mild compared to what we are surely doing in Iraq and in connection with the GWOT. With certain exceptions (the bombing of occuped houses, execution), a sense of…