Indians favour torturing terrorists, says report

Rediff ^ | June 24, 2008 21:40 IST | Rediff

[CarrotAndStick]

A majority of people in India feel that use of torture on terrorists is justified if it could help save innocent lives, a new survey of 19 nations shows.
    
India bucks the trend in the poll, which saw most people favouring an unequivocal rule against torture, even in the case of terrorists who have information that could save lives of innocent people.
    
But four nations, including India, lean toward favouring an exception in the case of terrorists, according to the WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 19,063 respondents, released ahead of the International Victims of Torture Day on June 26.
    
Majorities in India (59 per cent), Nigeria (54 per cent), and Turkey (51 per cent), and a plurality in Thailand (44 per cent) want an exception for terrorists.
    
India, the survey shows, has the largest number saying that torture should be allowed on terrorists, as well as the lowest support for unequivocal rules against torture.
    
Among all nations polled in both 2006 and 2008, India also has the largest increase in support of making exceptions for torture in the case of terrorism -- from 32 per cent two years ago to 59 per cent now.
    
India has 12 per cent that believe torture should generally be allowed, while 28 per cent overall say that all torture should be prohibited.
    
The number of those that reject torture totally has also risen from 23 per cent in 2006 to 28 per cent. In 2006, 28 percent of Indians gave an answer of "neither" or "depends" on this question.

 

[CarrotAndStick]

International Terrorist Incidents

Patterns of Global Terrorism  

 

 

 

http://www.serve.com/NESEC/hazards/Terrorism.cfm

 

[CarrotAndStick]

[river rat]

MEMO

To: Pentagon
Fr: Your friends in India

Subject: Prisoners

Please advise your field commanders, that in the unfortunate circumstance your warriors come into possession of live prisoners - they should IMMEDIATELY contact our local “agent” to transfer prisoners.

India will take official possession of prisoners, and they will be “questioned” in situ immediately.....and then transported to India for appropriate “final action”....

Remember this, and you owe me one.

Satish

[WoofDog123]

England is not noted, and should be. There may be the argument that it was domestic terror, but clearly was globally inspired.

Wonder what other inaccuracies exist.

[CarrotAndStick]

It’s a 2001 map.

[WoofDog123]

ah, thanks. That makes sense.

[quark]

Let’s see, India suffers a terrorist attack about once every 10 days, and Indians are in favor of torturing terrorists to get information. Wow, who would’ve thunk it? Wonder if the leftist members of the SCOTUS are aware?< /sarc>

[satan]

Apaches? Sioux? Commanche?

[Desron13]

I say we absolutely make an exception for terrorists. They are NOT covered under the Geneva Convention since they are not combatants in uniform. Their activities are generally directed against civilian populations and they have no regard for human life or the magnitude of loss thereof. Actually, the more loss of life the better in their twisted minds. We need to find the most effective methods of torture/coercion and apply them without mercy for we shall receive none from the terrorists/Islamists.

[TigersEye]

Israel is conspicuously absent from those survey results. If anyone suffers as much or more terrorism on a daily basis than India it would be Israel. I think their views would have been worth including.

[nuadvntur]

Terrorists should be treated with absolute contempt. They should be interrogated by any and all means to extract information. They should be executed by drowning in a mixture of pig blood and pig manure. The body should be buried in public display and the whole mess should be anointed by pig's blood. When the civilized world realizes that the only way to deal with these subhumans animals is extreme retribution, then we will be on our way to a peaceful settlement and coexistence.

[CGTRWK]

Interesting to see the US public is right up there with the paragons of civilization like Nigeria and China in our approval of state torture not merely to find a ticking bomb but as a general policy towards suspects in general.

And by interesting I mean shameful and scary.

[CGTRWK]

When President B. Hussein Obama starts declaring fringe pro-lifers and Aryan tinfoil hatters with gun collections and Mormons with too many wives terrorists, do we torture them too?

How about a couple administrations later when some nut posts advocating violence on a web forum like this one, that’s clearly a terrorist website so the other members are terrorists too.

Time to start warming up that manure.

[dan1123]

Did anyone else read the headline as, “India favors torturing tourists”?

[Cronos]

pig blood and pig manure.

By using our porcine friends, you seem to suggest that all terrroristas are followers of the religion of peace (r). That is so completely wrong. how CAN you suggest that?


You should be stating it as a fact.

I agree completely with you.

[Cronos]

Oh, and btw, torture does not mean putting panties on your head and stripping you nekked.

[TigersEye]

I was with you up until the ‘peaceful settlement and coexistence’ part.