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Thu 07 Jul 2008US interrogators training 'based on Chinese torture'
US:MILITARY TRAINERS at Guantánamo Bay based interrogation classes on torture methods used by Chinese communists during the 1950s, according to documents released by Congress.
The New York Timesreported yesterday that one training session in 2002 was based entirely on a 1957 analysis of coercive techniques used by the Chinese on US prisoners of war in Korea.
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