, beat , and harassed political opponents , journalists , and human rights workers . ” The SPLA also broke its 2010 pledge to demobilize all of its child soldiers by the end of the year , leaving children serving in the force . “ Post-2005 , I think the lack of public criticism — by the U.S. — of the SPLA for its abuses and then the military assistance given to the SPLA by private contractors and others was silly , ” said Alex de Waal , the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University ’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy . “ It was totally counterproductive .
Words , sticks and stones Second , a worrying number of non - state actors are enforcing censorship by assassination . Reporters in Mexico who investigate crime or corruption are often murdered , and sometimes torturedlife.injure.nafirst . Jihadists slaughter those they think have insulted their faith . When authors and artists say anything that might be deemed disrespectful of Islam , they take risks .
His team is practically unique in the field of “ architectural forensics ” , using the designer ’s spatial toolkit to build damning bodies of evidence used in both UN investigations and trials in the international criminal court . For Amnesty , the team began an intensive process of interviewing former detainees of Saydnaya prison who escaped across the border to Turkey , to build up a detailed picture of the facility . The prison is an echo chamber : one person being torturedlife.injure.nais like everyone being tortured . You can not escape it Abu Hamdan “ Architecture is a conduit to memory , ” says Weizman , describing how an Arabic - speaking architect built a digital model on screen as detainees described specific memories and events .
“ On the one hand , any involvement whatever in the practice of torture , countenancing or condoning as well as participating , is forbidden , formally by the World Medical Association 1957 Declaration of Tokyo , but more generally by the professional duty to do no harm , ” he said . “ On the other hand , the professional duty of care , and more generally human decency and compassion , forbids standing idly by when no other professional with comparable skills is available to relieve the suffering of victims of torture . “ But then again , they may also be all too aware that in exercising their duty of care they may simply be ‘ patching up ’ the victims in order for them to be torturedlife.injure.naagain . ” Professor Boyd said that given the interest in Australia ’s immigration control policies in Europe and other places , the practices of its detention centres should be “ of moral concern elsewhere also ” . “ Popular sentiment in relatively peaceful and prosperous countries which are the desired destination of migrants from war - torn or impoverished parts of the world may not always wish to know all of the means by which immigration is controlled , ” he said .