6 years ago: Andrew Williams, JAG, BDH

December 27, 2007, here on slacktivist: Andrew Williams, JAG, BDH

“Thank you General Hartmann for finally admitting the United States is now part of a long tradition of torturers going back to the Inquisition. In the middle ages the Inquisition called waterboarding ‘toca’ and used it with great success. In colonial times, it was used by the Dutch East India Company during the Amboyna Massacre of 1623.

“Waterboarding was used by the Nazi Gestapo and the feared Japanese Kempeitai. In World War II, our grandfathers had the wisdom to convict Japanese Officer Yukio Asano of waterboarding and other torture practices in 1947 giving him 15 years hard labor. Waterboarding was practiced by the Khmer Rouge at the infamous Tuol Sleng prison. Most recently, the United States Army court martialed a soldier for the practice in 1968 during the Vietnam conflict.”