Witness: [one interrogator] ordered a ladder to be brought, and they tied my chestand legs to it, my hands already having been tied before. I was then pressed underthree running taps in a bathroom. [Another interrogator] pressed a gunny bag onmy face and they tried to force water into me. They did not succeed because Istruggled and they left me under one tap which was running directly on my noseand face, a second flowing towards my body, and the third towards my legs.Prosecutor: How long were you left lying there?Witness: Approximately two hours.

In trials, both before U.S. military commissions, and as a participant in the InternationalMilitary Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)16 American judges or commissioners heard American prosecutors roundly condemn the practice as it was applied to American servicemen, and voted to convict the perpetrators. The United States was not alone in prosecuting water torture before national tribunals, nor were the Japanese its sole practitioner. It is worth comparing those trials with Norway?s prosecution of German defendants for the same form of misconduct,17 and the United Kingdom?s trial and execution of Japanese interrogators who used the method