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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Times of London blogs A River Kwai Story
The Times of London, Times Online Archive blog features A River Kwai Story on April 21, 2009.
Titled Waterboarding was a war crime in WW2. What's changed? it builds on former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's contention that waterboarding was an effective way of getting information.
It links to my 2005 blog, Waterboarding is a war crime as well as stories in the Times about POW Eric Lomax and a letter to the Times from General Sir Arthur Percival marking the death in a plane crash of Cyril Wild. (Note to read letter you must accept popups from Times Online)
See also a second link from the Times on "humane" torture by the French in Algeria.
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writing, journalism, Burma Thailand Railway, World War II, water boarding,F Force, Prisoner of War,
military tribunal, torture, Times, book
A River Kwai Story, France, Double Tenth, Japan
11:29 PM posted by Robin Rowland
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Titled Waterboarding was a war crime in WW2. What's changed? it builds on former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's contention that waterboarding was an effective way of getting information.
It links to my 2005 blog, Waterboarding is a war crime as well as stories in the Times about POW Eric Lomax and a letter to the Times from General Sir Arthur Percival marking the death in a plane crash of Cyril Wild. (Note to read letter you must accept popups from Times Online)
See also a second link from the Times on "humane" torture by the French in Algeria.
Technorati tags
writing, journalism, Burma Thailand Railway, World War II, water boarding,F Force, Prisoner of War,
military tribunal, torture, Times, book
A River Kwai Story, France, Double Tenth, Japan
Labels: A River Kwai Story, archives, Bridge on the River Kwai, Burma Thailand Railway, F Force, Guantanamo, Times, torture, water torture, waterboarding, World War II
11:29 PM posted by Robin Rowland
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
U.S. declassifies more Japanese war crimes files
The United States National Archives has declassified more files on Japanese War Crimes.
Japanese War Crimes were covered by the Nazi War Crimes Act passed by the US Congress in 1999.
As of January 12, 2007, 100,000 pages of records are now available to the public.
The Archives press release is here. www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2007/nr07-42.html.
The page also contains pdf downloads which tells you how to research in the Archives.
The main page for the Interagency Working Group on war crimes is at
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/
8:41 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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Japanese War Crimes were covered by the Nazi War Crimes Act passed by the US Congress in 1999.
As of January 12, 2007, 100,000 pages of records are now available to the public.
The Archives press release is here. www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2007/nr07-42.html.
The page also contains pdf downloads which tells you how to research in the Archives.
The main page for the Interagency Working Group on war crimes is at
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/
Labels: archives, human rights, Japan, research, United States, war crime, water torture, World War II
8:41 AM posted by Robin Rowland
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