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The UN's Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has documented several cases of war crimes committed by Russian troops, including rape and torture, according to the report made public on Oct. 20.
>> this was almost a two-hour controlled torture and interrogation session by racist officers. they came in asking both men, were they dating white women? and throughout the course of the torture session, they constantly, all of them were using the word [ bleep ], constantly calling them [ bleep ]. and at time, monkeys. >> reporter: the attorneys say had their clients not survived, this case may have been more difficult to bring to light. >> whatever they wrote in their official report would be the official word. rankin county. they are used to the word of law enforcement being the final word....
And that's the essence of the report. the american people will be able to go through it and say here is case number 17 or case number 12. the they went through excruciating detail. it is an amazing job of research. 6 million documents, cables, e-mails, communications between the headquarters and the field and that was the central question in the bulk of the report was did that information come from the torture or was that information available to them and, in fact, was made available by the very witnesses in many cases before they went into the torture session. so that's really what the report...
After he cut a deal. again, the details here. they're tough to listen to. but these are the facts. authorities say kidnapping and rape were just a few of the brutalities that 46-year-old edward begley committed against his victim, who was 16 when they met. they say that he also shocked her, waterboarded her, and mutilated her. and court documents show he did it for years. investigators say the victim was under his control for six years. he also made her sign a slave contract as well as allowed others to violate her. and when this man thought this young woman was pregnant, he forced abortions o...
That we are told that led to the actual operation, and whatever they got out of a torture session of a particular suspect was only one of those over 100 points. this is a very tenuous affair, and then the other case that's always referred to is a name that we allegedly got from khalid sheikh mohammed after he was waterboarded 100 times. that's not a ringing endorsement of the effectiveness and no morality of torture as a technique. >> it's not effectiveness but the morality of it and that question in the united states is answered how by the majority of americans? do they support these, quote, ...