allegations of torture a little treatment the the experience shows that however that real change is all this brought about from within the country through public opinion true of public pressure through reform it institutions in the policies of the state it is also important to understand that torture is an effective tool of providing security or a finding to truth in criminal investigations it really is a tool to break people to intimidate people and that destroys not only directed but also the perpetrators and in the end dehumanizing even the society itself and tolerate such abuse so in a sense thought is counterproductive but states do not seem to understand that and yet persist but that practice unfortunately takes a long time for the consciousness and the understanding to come through of how
a treaty however the prohibition of torture is not dependent on the ratification of the treaty because it is considered to be the fundamental christian regime and right which is even. means you cannot even be. your change through a separate treaty so it is one of the strongest custody human rights those recognized university one of the strongest customer to human rights as your portrait yet we keep getting report after report which accuses the indian government of using torture in jump when me how can change be brought about. oh because that is not the only context they receive unfortunately regular allegations of torture a little treatment the the experience shows that however that real change is all this brought about from within the country through public opinion true of public
entire state is claimed by both pakistan and india long running resentment against india rule led to a full blown insurgency in the late ninety s that brought with it a heavy presence of indian troops now a report by 2 n.g.o.s the association of parents of disappeared persons and the general case made coalition of civil society says the government has been using torture up against the local population indiscriminately since 900 $47.00 and that for the most part the abuses are going unpunished a professor at neil s meltzer is the un special rapporteur on torture and he joins me now from geneva professor meltzer glad you could join us now these allegations ont new these allegations of torture have been made against the indian government before does this report changed anything. well i think the allegation is that sooner or snooki an obviously are very very serious and
pressure through reform institutions in the policies of the state it is also important to understand that torture is an effective tool of providing security or a finding to truth in criminal investigations it really is a tool to break people through people and that destroys not only directed but also the perpetrators and in the end the humanizes even the society itself to tolerate such abuse so in a sense torture a is counterproductive but states do not seem to understand that and yet persist but that practice. unfortunately takes a long time for the consciousness and the understanding to come through of how destructive torture really is again i cannot assert to what exactly the facts are in india because i have not and it will be true to investigate myself i have
a heavy presence of indian troops now a report by 2 n.g.o.s the association of parents of disappeared persons and then made coalition of civil society says the government has been using torture against the local population indiscriminately since 947 and that for the most part the abuses are going unpunished a professor at neil s is the un special rapporteur on torture and he joins me now from geneva professor meltzer glad you could join us now these allegations and new these allegations of torture have been made against the indian government before does this report changed anything. well i think the allegations that the reporters looking obviously are very very serious and suggest that there might be. very grave violation of the permission of torture now i m not in a position to assert the accuracy of all these allegations but i unfortunately was