\nTorture is specifically prohibited in armed conflict, whether international or internal, whether used against soldiers who have laid down their arms, civilians, or even common criminals. The prohibition exists in customary law and in treaties. Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 makes it clear that \u201cviolence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture\u201d as well as \u201coutrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment\u201d are banned under any circumstances. The Hague Regulations of 1907 on customs of war also state in Article 44 that \u201ca belligerent is forbidden to force the inhabitants of territory occupied by it to furnish information about the army of the other belligerent, or about its means of defense.\u201d
\nThe law makes a slight distinction between torture, which is often used to force information out of a suspect, and inhumane treatment, which attacks a person\u2019s dignity, but the line between the two is often blurred. Indeed, revenge and hatred, as much as the need to obtain a confession, often drive the torturers to inflict the suffering. Torture is used not just to hurt physically, but also to humiliate the victim, which is why prisoners are often left naked during torture sessions, and rape or pain inflicted on the genitals are among the most commonly used forms of torture. In fact, attacks of a sexual nature are so widespread in time of conflict that Article 27 of the Fourth Geneva Convention specifically refers to the treatment of women who should be defended against \u201crape, enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault.\u201d Protecting human dignity in all circumstances is in fact the whole spirit behind the Geneva Conventions.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Este libro no habr\u00eda sido necesario si el mundo no continuara siendo un lugar con cientos de est\u00fapidas guerras donde las leyes y los derechos humanos brillan por su ausencia. Las guerras de este siglo estan llenas de comportamientos humanos tan malos como los de cualquier guerra conocida en la historia, y de ellos, hay… Leer m\u00e1s »Cr\u00edmenes de Guerra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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