waterboarding 復習
アメリカのジョー・バイデン副大統領は、核兵器開発や保持、拷問などを推奨するトランプ氏を非難しています。
Joe Biden: Donald Trump can’t be trusted with America's nuclear codes
Vice president Joe Biden unleashed a scathing attack of Republican nominee Donald Trump, accusing him of "playing into the hands of terrorists".
"He would have loved Stalin," Mr Biden told the crowd at Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was campaigning alongside Hillary Clinton for the first time during the campaign.
Minutes before Mr Trump was about to give a speech on Isis and terrorism, Mr Biden accused Mr Trump of having "dangerous and profoundly un-American" ideas.
He said Mr Trump favoured Russian president Vladimir Putin, he "showered praise on Saddam Hussein, one of the most violent dictators of the 20th century", advocated the use of torture and the killing of criminal suspects’ family members, and encouraged the Middle East to build their own nuclear weapons.
Mr Trump previously recommended the use of waterboarding to get information out of terrorists.
He also said that South Korea and Japan should obtain nuclear weapons so they could solve their own problems without relying on US aid.
"Does he not realise we wrote the Japanese constitution so they could not own a nuclear weapon? Where was he in school?" Mr Biden asked. "Someone who lacks this judgement cannot be trusted."
Mr Biden added: "He belittles our closest allies, nations that stand with us and are part of our security network, who are with us for every international challenge, who fought and died alongside us for decades.”
取り上げる単語は"waterboarding"です。
LDOCEの英英辞典にも、手持ちの辞書にも載っていなかったので、ネットの力に頼ってしまいました。
英辞郎on the Webによると、「(拷問、自白強要のための)水責め」とありました。
また、wikipediaを見てみますと、日本語ではよく「水責め尋問」と訳されるそうです。
その名の通り、板(board)に背中を固定し頭に穴を開けた袋をかぶせ、水(water)を注ぎ込むことで窒息させるという、聞くだけで苦しくなるような拷問です。
アメリカでは、身体を損傷しない限りは拷問ではないとし、拷問を禁止する「ジュネーヴ条約」に違反しないと主張しています。
ここでの記事によると、トランプ氏は、テロリストから情報を得るために、この拷問を行うことを勧めているとのことです。(Akim)
