“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” By Lazar Stevlic

     Human Rights came about in late 1948. They were created to give people rights that can never be taken away from you because you are a human. One of those human rights was “No Torture.” It states that “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” but some people have this right violated. People in Syria, and Guantanamo Bay are being tortured everyday. Which makes it feel to those people that they have no human rights. 141 countries still use torture according to the U.N. It is also happening a lot right now due to wars that are happening right now. There is torture happening even on our own soil in America. But people don’t care. The Red Cross made a poll about torture. According to the poll 46% of Americans think that torture is acceptable. But it really isn’t acceptable. As a human you have rights that you get for being human. One of those rights is the right to not be tortured. But many countries and Americans don’t care.
     During the Syrian Civil War the Syrian government have been doing everything to stop the rebels. A Syrian woman by the name of Farah was arrested by the Syrian Government and tortured. For this she was interviewed by the BBC (British Broadcasting Station) because of what happened to her and they wanted to share her story. She was arrested because they thought that she was a opposition activist a.k.a a rebel but she wasn’t. The first thing she saw were men hanged up. She was put in a dark, cold room with 12 other women. She was beaten as they asked her questions. She also tortured with electrodes. She was also threatened with rape by the guards and the interrogators. They tortured her physically and mentally. They also threatened to bring her son into the detention center. Hurting her inside even more. Farah and other people in the detention center were being tortured on a daily basis. The guards didn't care who they tortured as she said that a elderly man got tortured once. She said that they electrocuted him and he died during the torture. So they picked his body up from the ground and threw him out of the room. She also has seen a man being hung from his hands and legs. They pulled the ropes and spit on him. After 36 days of cruel, and endless torture they released her from prison and she went to the UK. She holds Syrian President Bashar al-Assad responsible from the torture and events she witnessed in the prison. Due to the torture and things she witness she will probably be scarred of life.
      There could be life long effects on Farah’s life due to the torture. She can develop PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) due to the torture she went though and the events she witnessed in the prison. Another man who was tortured named Adeel suffers from panic attacks due to the torture. Whenever he hears footsteps approaching him or a person in uniform it triggers bad memories and he gets a panic attack. He was tortured in Guantanamo Bay by US soldiers. Adeel also feels like he is still in Guantanamo Bay and he also feels isolated due to his torture. A psychiatrist at King’s College London said that the techniques that they use in torture are “cruel, inhuman, and degrading.”
     Torture isn’t a thing that some countries want to stop like the Syria and 46% of American citizens. They use torture to get inform from Prisoners of War. Syria and some Americans don’t think that there are other ways to get information of people. Plus they should stop because it violates a human right. Human Right number 5, “No Torture” but some countries are trying to put an end to torture. Barack Obama has been trying closed Guantanamo Bay where the Americans had been torturing prisoners. He also banned the use of brutal interrogation techniques being used by American troops. Due to Obama trying to stop the use of torture in the US other countries could be soon to follow signaling the end of torture for good.

Human Rights Tortue Blog

On December 5th 2016, The Red Cross opened up a poll about torture. They opened the poll to see what Americans thought about torture. The poll had one simple question is torture okay or not. Well 46% of Americans say that torture is acceptable. Which is a big human right violation. Human Rights are right that you have as a human being. One of your human rights is “No Torture”. Which states that “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”. 46% of Americans disregard this human right and say that torture is acceptable. 33% of Americans also say that torture is “a part of war”. Meaning that if US Army takes a POW then they could torture that prisoner to give them information about their enemies. Meaning that the US Army could violate human rights due to them being in a war.
     But not all is bad. In the same poll 54% of Americans find that torture is wrong. Meaning that these people have educated themselves about these things. They also know that torture is a human right violation. But not all things are good. The Red Cross poll also showed that the poll was a lower proportion than any other country polled. Israel had 44% of people said that torture is acceptable and Palestine had 35% of people say that torture is acceptable. Meaning that we have the most percent of people that say that torture is an acceptable than any other country in the world.

Nonfiction Blog: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The book I'm reading is about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What I read recently was leading up to the bombing and what happened during and after the bombing. It talked about the beginning of WW2 and how the entire world was in total war.  The author talked about the battles and things that happened leading up to the bombing. By 1945 the Japanese were locked in a war with the US. The Japanese saw surrender as dishonorable and fought with their life for the glory of Japan. On March 10th, 1945, 300 American aircraft dropped 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs. Damaging almost every city. Despite this the Japanese never surrendered. The prepared a final battle and taught their citizens how to fight and gave them weapons. But America was working on the Manhattan Project which gave them nuclear weapons. FDR didn't use them but he suddenly died and his successor Harry Truman was ready to use it to end WW2. Then on 7:09 a.m. on Monday, August 6th, 1945 Hiroshima was bombed by the atomic bomb killing 100,000 people. Many were injured by burns and everything was destroyed. Even after that bombing on Hiroshima the Japanese still didn't surrender. It wasn't till they nuked Nagasaki that the Japanese would surrender ending WW2.
     “In 1939, German-born physicist Albert Einstein-who had moved to the U.S. because of the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany-had written a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, warning that the Germans had successfully split an atom of element uranium, a breakthrough that could potentially lead to the development of incredibly powerful atomic bombs”. I found this passage interesting because I wonder why the Germans were trying to do that in the first place, were they trying to make a weapon that could completely destroy their enemies. I found this interesting because the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused important events after the war was over and into our lifetime. The “Cold War” started because of the atomic bomb. The Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Iran Nuclear Deal and I see things like that happen and I wonder what would have our world look like without nuclear weapons.
     I have one thing that I found interesting and I will probably never forget this. When the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 100,000 people died because of the atomic bomb. Then the Japanese didn't surrender so the US bombed Nagasaki. Then the Japanese surrendered. The US citizens were celebrating. But they were celebrating the deaths for innocent people. Babies, mothers, grandmothers, fathers all perished in the bombings but the US won. So people overlook that fact. That the way we won WW2 was because of the death of 100,000 plus innocent people.

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