The Torture Convention was signed by dozens of states which still torture, by Chile while Pinochet himself was still head of state and could never have intended to provide for his own arrest, and by the government of Mrs Thatcher, the General's most effusive supporter. The General's tactics of objecting to judges who might know about human rights produced an apolitical bench who, with an almost touching naivety, took the Torture Convention to mean what it said. With uncanny, uncynical decency, they proceeded to hoist the old torturer by his own petard. -- Geoffrey Robertson, "Crimes Against Humanity" regarding _Pinochet (No. 3)_