Torture is wrong.
The UN Convention Against Torture defines torture as any act through which severe pain or suffering, physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person to obtain information, a confession or as punishment, inflicted by or on the orders of a public official or person acting in an official capacity.
An order to carry out torture is illegal and the security forces and other public officials ordered to do so can - and must - rightfully refuse to participate in this breach of human rights.
Fiji is yet to sign or ratify the UN Convention Against Torture, but that does not mean we can not bear witness, document and denounce the torture by the military-led regime of the the people under its rule.
In these pages, we urge you not to look away when you witness or learn about incidents of torture.
We must put an end to impunity for torture and all forms of violence.
It begins with not looking away.
An order to carry out torture is illegal and the security forces and other public officials ordered to do so can - and must - rightfully refuse to participate in this breach of human rights.
Fiji is yet to sign or ratify the UN Convention Against Torture, but that does not mean we can not bear witness, document and denounce the torture by the military-led regime of the the people under its rule.
In these pages, we urge you not to look away when you witness or learn about incidents of torture.
We must put an end to impunity for torture and all forms of violence.
It begins with not looking away.
