Dilemmas

Torture -
Terrorism

MARTÍNEZ RAMÍREZ AXEL ALEJANDRO

PINACHO FLORES DIEGO IVAN
INTRODUCTION
Terrorism is not a new phenomenon.
Neither torture, nor the dilemma of the
various countries to "balance"
national security and human rights in the
fight against “terror”. Throughout modern
history,
'terrorism' and 'counter-terrorism' have
been words commonly used in legal
parlance
and politics. And in fact, this is not the first
time that a 'war on terror' has been
launched against these many
problematics
Terrorism
Is defined as “the unlawful
use of violence and
intimidation, in the pursuit of
political aims.” We quickly
see that this definition is
unspecific and subjective.
The issue of subjectivity in
this case means that there
is no internationally
recognised legal definition
of terrorism.
 Torture
Torture is generally defined as actions
that cause excessive physical and
psychological suffering. These may
include hysical and sexual assault, use of
electric shock, employment of mind-
altering drugs, sleep deprivation, and
various other actions. All of these
methods have the same objective: to
break a person and erase them as an
individual.
 Solution Protection of
fundamental
In the solution it is currently believed that there
is a very strong relationship between the

rights
people who are with terrorism and apart from
the loyalty that they have, so everyone must
be judged to prevent it from spreading further

Affect people related to the Terrorists even when they do the

terrorists even when they are not terrible things they do they still
necessarily involved have rights
Use
Solution

of force
In the solution, ways must be used so that
the government takes into account its
people and thus few people are affected,
so either based on surveys or peaceful
demonstrations

Act with the voice and let that be the Act violently until requests are made
force of reason to exert pressure
 How hard should we fight in terrorism?

Selective killings
Fight terrorism (without exception)

Solution
The human values that we share and work to uphold are ridiculed by terrorists. The promotion of peace, equality, tolerance and
dignity for all are universal values that transcend our national differences. They are the glue that binds us together. United as nations
and peoples of the world, we must unite to protect our common humanity to try to prevent either the violent acts that are done to
stop it.
Democrati
c Achieve maximum

dilemmas
effectiveness in the
fight

Compromising
Solution fundamental
Compromising on the protection of human democratic values,
rights would give terrorists a victory they cannot
achieve alone. And when human rights abuses human rights and
are committed as part of a campaign to
combat terrorism, terrorists take advantage of civil liberties
these abuses to mobilize their proselytes and try
to better justify their actions, so they should
always be respected.
 Legal
dilemmas The lack of legal
jurisdiction of the State
that has been suffering
from terrorist attacks

Solution People planning and

supporting such attacks
Here, in fact, the solution is somewhat are acting outside the
simple since currently it is about creating jurisdiction of their law
an army that goes directly to the terrorists
enforcement authorities
so that this problem can be dealt with and
thus there are no tense legal situations
either.
 Resort to violence?
Some interrogation techniques, detention methods, and
operating procedures employed by military personnel,
law enforcement, and other authorities on prisioners or
enemy combatants have been identified as torture by
human rights activists.

Solution
The solution that international
goverments were to investigate and
prosecute charges of torture when ir
occurs in military and law enforcement
settings,
torture is an effective way to extract information?

In terrorist attacks, the United states

employed many controversial tactics Solution

against suspected terrorist to gather

intelligence regarding the attack. They
President Barack Obama issued an executive
order that limited the type of interrogation
techniques that could be used by the CIA.
employed several interrogation techniques
like the waterboarding.
 The Rome
Statute
The international Criminal Court (ICC)
identified torture as one of eleven acts
considered to be crimes against humanity in
the court's founding document, commonly
referred to as the Rome Statute, this
entering into force in 2002 but the
government of USA announced it would not
join the agreement
Solution
The goverment expressed that the treaty
lacked an adequate system of checks and
balances, weakened the authority of the
Security Council, and placed US military
personnel at risk for prosecution, has since
maintained that there is no need for the
United States to ratify the Rome Statute
considering its federal laws already prohibit
any act of torture.
 Torture in the
war on terror
In the terrorist attacks on September
11, 2001, President George W. Bush
authorized the CIA to detain
suspected terrorists in 2001, the
Human rights organization Amnesty
International and several mainstream
news outlets began to report
incidents of torture taking place at
Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
Solution
The administration’s explain that
And the people start to question
these soldiers had acted on their
whether they were the best methods.
own and they were punished by the
law.

The Senate Committee on Armed Services

determined that senior officials had
authorized this type of abuse.
Compromise national
security?
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence launched
an investigation into CIA detention and interrogation
practices. The committee declassified the report of its
Solution
investigation and released it to the public in December
Arizona senator John
2014.
Many congressional Republicans denounced the McCain, who experienced
release of the report, expressing concern that doing so torture firsthand during the
could compromise national security. Vietnam War, defended the
report’s release, stressing
the importance that the
United States maintain a
respect for human rights.

The report concluded that

the CIA had not only
engaged in torture but had
misled other agencies about
the effectiveness of EITs
 Torture revisited
At a primary debate in New Hampshire,
then-candidate Donald Trump distinguished
Solution
himself from the other candidates by
expressing a desire to allow widespread use
of the controversial practice of The nomination was opposed by human
waterboarding and a willingness to rights activists, and faced scrutiny from
authorize practices he described as “a hell public officials, including Republican
senators Rand Paul and John McCain and
of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
this never happened.
 Conclusion
As we can see, these dilemmas lead us to moral
questions, to ask whether the methods used are correct
and even justified. In the end, we know that physical and
psychological harm to another person is extremely
wrong and will never be good, even if its purpose is
justified.