A letter in the June 22 Nation.
Mount Dora, Fla.
It did my heart good to read Katha Pollitt's May 18th " Subject to Debate " with its mention of the Japanese use of the "water treatment" - as we called it during my two and a half years of torture, starvation and beatings from April 1943 to September 1945. Since all the fuss about the recent US torture programs, nobody seems to refer to the Japanese use of this useless type of interrogation or how it was adjudicated at the war crimes trials in Tokyo in 1946 at which my skipper testified about our treatment at various camps (including the illegal navy camp at Ofuna).
At the trials one, perhaps more, of our guards was sentenced to hang and several more given prison sentences. All this serves to support the prosecution of American leaders like Bush, Cheney, Addington, Yoo, etc., who planned and carried out the torture program of the past several years.
Kevin Harty.
I believe we're not supposed to quote in full items which appeared elsewhere.
You tell me where any part of this could be cut.
