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In a report released Moday Amnesty blames governments of the world, including the United States for not having the political will to stop torture. The US government has allowed modern electro-shock weapons to be transferred by US companies to Turkey, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia, according to the report.
Amnesty said between 1998-2000 at least 185 businesses in 25 countries were making and supplying or brokering devices used to inflict torture. They go on to report at least 74 US companies are involved. These findings coincide with U.S. State Department reports which level criticism on other countries for their alleged human rights abuses, including torture.
The report calls upon governments to ban the manufacture, trade and use of police and security equipment which is inherently cruel, inhuman or degrading. It also calls for the suspension the international transfer of electro-shock, leg-cuffs, thumb-cuffs, shackle boards, restraint chairs and pepper gas weapons.
Amnesty's report also says, Military, security and police
expertise taught internationally has also been used for
torture. For example, hundreds of School of the Americas
graduates have been implicated in human rights violations
in South and Central America.
[Amnesty insists governments ensure that the training of
military, security and police personnel not include the
transfer of skills, knowledge and techniques likely to lend
themselves to torture.] {we can cut the paragraph in parenthesis if needed}