Former head of the Army Sir Mike Jackson has questioned whether the treatment of the 'Hooded Men' amounted to torture.
A former professional head of the Army has questioned whether the treatment of 14 men interned during the Troubles amounted to torture.Gen Sir Mike Jackson made the remarks in a BBC documentary detailing the men's experience.During their Army detention, the men said they were forced to listen to constant loud static noise, deprived of sleep, food and water, forced to stand in a stress position and beaten if they fell.
He said: "This question, can non-violent ill-treatment equal torture, is very philosophical as well as legal."PSNI 'wrong not to investigate torture claims' Jim Auld was taken away by soldiers as he returned to his home in west Belfast, before being transferred to an interrogation centre in County Londonderry by helicopter.
"They were all standing with lumps of wood and baseball bats and that sort of thing and they pushed me in there and each of them, as I was running by, battered me. "Torture to me, in a sense, was what the like of the Nazis were doing with the French resistance and people like that. There was gross physical violence, people were actually beaten to death," he said
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