Double Standard for War Crimes
May 27, 2009
Between 1946 and 1949 a number of Japanese war criminals were put on trial by a U.S. Military Commission at Yokohama, Japan. In May 1947 the United States charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for carrying out waterboarding on an American prisoner, Morris O. Killough . The subject was strapped on a stretcher that was tilted so that his feet were in the air and head near the floor, and small amounts of water were poured over his face, leaving him gasping for air until he agreed to talk.
Yukio Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. There are numerous instances of use by the Japanese of water based interrogation techniques.
Now you have former Vice President Dick Cheney and such uninformed commentators as Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh defending these same practices that convicted Yukio Asano. If it was so wrong then why was it right during the Bush Administration?
Greg Lennes
Las Cruces
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