Police deny banana torture

John Aglionby
Friday April 2, 2004
The Guardian

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Cambodian police have been accused of using bananas to extract confessions from two alleged soap powder thieves.

Officers in the Prampii Makara district of the capital, Phnom Penh, allegedly force-fed bananas to two teenagers detained on Sunday until they felt so sick they confessed to stealing five bags of soap powder from a car.

Captain Yim Simony yesterday admitted officers gave the fruit to the young men but insisted nothing improper happened.

"Of course it was not torture," he said. "These teenagers were hungry and refused to answer any questions until they had eaten something. So we gave them the bananas and then they cooperated."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1184216,00.html

weirdest news I've read in quite a while.

Initially I thought this was some Luima-style brutality. I'm glad it was a different orifice.

SOAP POWDER!?!?

??

I'm glad that it wasn't.

repeel those bananas!

:silly:

and twists the truth while forcefeeding us crap.

Very tricky explanation by the cop.


Bush force feeds us bullshit to get us to comply wioth his fascist global war agenda and then says - "I was only taking CARE of you!"

they have weapons of mass bananas.
if they had oil -- that would be bush's excuse.
other wise, if you have to be tortured -- force fed bananas would be my pick.

Dubya can then set up his own banana republic and let out a bunch of contracts to Hallibanana.

Well, at least it's better than feeding suspects soap to get them to confess to stealing bananas.

But, gee, the police were just feeding the hungry -- it must really be true that no good deed goes unpunished.

Force feeding a primate delicacy to human primates? Indeed.