British Army, police used waterboarding as a torture method in Northern Ireland

One of the great hypocrites are those GOP Irish Americans who just loved Bush-era water boarding and the John Yoo conclusion that water boarding is not torture and "keeps us safe." As long as we are water boarding Muslims I guess that is OK. It is embarrassing across the board when I hear right wingnut Irish Americans applaud cuts in the safety net (food programs for the poor) as they are militant about An Gorta Mor (Great Hunger). Of course The Great Hunger is so 19th century and sensitivity to hunger in America only affects "those people." How any rightwing Irish Americans can jump on the torture and hunger is Ok bandwagon, given their heritage is beyond my comprehension.

seems notable that it's the BBC doing this look back on the corrupt thuggery of the ever-so-civilized brits...

Torture is a core british value employed regularly and obsessively by the terror state in its global campaigns of nation mugging, much of it of a sick sexual nature (see Kenya for one example). Lliam Holden was basically a child when these "soldiers" got a hold of him - british manhood always leaps into action against unarmed civilians.

We know that 1972 - 30th of Jan. - was also the year when members of the British Army's Pachute Regiment shot dead 13 civil rights marchers in Derry, 6 of whom were only 17 years old. Then on 9 July of that year, British soldiers killed 5 people in Springhil- Ballymurphy, Belfast, including Joan Connelly who had 8 children, Fr. Noel Fitzpatrick, John Dougal (16), David McCafferty (15)and Margaret Gargan (13). What possible threat did a middle-aged woman, a Catholic priest and 3 children, all unarmed, present to well trained, highly motivated, heavily armed British soldiers?

Sorry to disappoint, Seano...you're the one who justifies summary justice...just so long as it's your mates who are doling it out...In your words 'Engaging the enemy'...

The vicious torture inflicted on Liam Holden by his captors is news to me, even though I have closely followed events in the NE corner of Ireland since the late '60s. Thanks to Irish Central for informing the readerhip of this awful brutality.

Nothing new here,but Dano and fallsers will be along soon to to justify torture and the incarceration of the innocent

would you expect anything less from the brits?

Nothing new. Add to this: imprisonment without having to give a reason, court order, cigarette burns as torture, threats, etc. Harrassment at the border stations, stopping people in the streets and sticking unsecured machine guns into their bellies, etc etc.....

southies didn't or don't give a rats.

And then they called them terrorists, which I think of as the people who invade other countries to steal the natural resources and the land. Those who would paint the native people in a dark way, while secretly carrying out their own terrors on innocents. England needs to remove that label from the IRA.

Absolutely shocking! What ever happened to that sense of fair play gained on the playing fields of Eton. The SAS sharing Intel with the RUC. The Masonic connection in the RUC? Do you really think Casement's diary was real or a forgery, now!

This has been known for some time. It's just now becoming news?