Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Violation of the Nuremburg Code?

The Nazis were certainly experimenters when it came to medicine. Their doctors and scientists tried all sorts of nefarious things on Jews and other prisoners. Naturally, the subjects of these experiments did not give their consent. So, after the war the Nuremberg Code, which declared medical experiments were a crime against humanity, was promulgated. In 1998 the International Criminal Court stated that medical experiments conducted on detainees captured in international or internal conflicts were war crimes.

Now the Physicians for Human Rights organization wants the government to establish a commission of inquiry to examine the participation of CIA and private medical personnel in the interrogation program to determine whether we have breached domestic and international laws.

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