ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Genocide Convention, United Nations General Assembly
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Severe pain or sufering, whether physical or mental, intenionally inlicted on a person (for the purpose of) punishing, coercing or inimidaing. The deliberate inlicion of excruciaing physical or mental pain to punish or coerce. The intent to inlict sufering equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily funcion, or even death (oice of legal. How to recognize what is true: ibn al-shaykh al-libi 2003, lack of independent review of cia"s claims, the 24 scenario or the icking bomb , the non-torture breakthroughs (khalid al-midhar, khalid sheikh mohammed) Codiicaion of the rules of war for all categories of people caught in armed conlict. A legal-appraoch ( zone de non-droit : guantanamo, rendiion, nemy combatants Untrained personnel in an a-legal environment and the accountability of decision-makers. War crimes: treatment of prisoners and civilians. Not extradite individual where they can be tortured.