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<p>The official line is clear: the United Kingdom does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to their national security, the gloves always come off.</p><p>Drawing on previously unseen official documents and the accounts of witnesses, victims and experts, prize-winning investigative journalist Ian Cobain looks beyond the cover-ups, the equivocations, and the attempts to dismiss brutality as the work of a few rogue interrogators, to get to the truth. From the Second World War to the War on Terror, via Kenya and Northern Ireland, <i>A Secret History of Torture</i> shows how the West have repeatedly and systematically resorted to torture, turning a blind eye where necessary, bending the law where they can, and issuing categorical denials all the while. What emerges is a picture of Britain that challenges our complacency on human rights and exposes the lie behind their reputation for fair play.</p>
- Author
- Ian Cobain
- Publisher
- Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781619021471
- Subjects
- Science, Political Science, History
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