Painting of waterboarding hangs at Cambodia's Genocide Museum

[Enrique]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuol_Sleng_Genocide_Museum



The painter Vann Nath is depicting his own experiences at the hands of his Khmer Rouge captors.

[Tempest]

1. We should have our own torture museum

There's plenty of pictures to fill a full size museum.

[KansDem]

2. Good idea...

Then we could include the tapes Sy Hersh referred to in a talk before the ACLU in 2004 about the screaming of boys being sodomized in order to get their parents "to talk."

Then we could require all Americans to tour this museum, kind of like what we did with the German people in making them tour the death camps after WWII. In essence, making them face reality.

[Tempest]

3. It should also have a waterboarding room

Where conservative pundits, Repug politicians and their sychopants who claim waterboarding isn't torture are waterboarded to show everyone that it is.

[KansDem]

4. !!!

:thumbsup:

[foo_bar]

7. that would violate Geneva conventions, but an animatronic Laura Ingraham would work

[thunder rising]

5. It looks like that is a towel over his face ... I thought that is what we did to keep it safe?

Damn them ... they copied our safe methods before we thought of using them!

[Tempest]

6. The towel absorbs the water

Which weights down the face and gives the victim more of the sensation of drowning (simulates the pressure from being under water).

[K8-EEE]

8. Hey the Khmer Rouge was just trying to keep everyone SAFE!

From the ticking timebomb painter, cut them some slack!


:sarcasm:

[Fuzz]

9. C'mon. This is America. We don't compare ourselves to savage nations like

Cambodia. We're better than that. We're number 1!!!

[ColbertWatcher]

10. Great find. Thank you for posting. FYI: private torture collection is up for auciton ...

A portion of the proceeds will go to human rights groups such as Amnesty International.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-torture-auction16-2009may16,0,676179.story

Link to slideshow: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-torture16-2009may16-pictures,0,3126384.photogallery

[Dark]

11. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Cambodia a rather cruel dictatorship still?

I honestly don't know, so if someone does know tell me.