Colonial Officials Protected and Empowered to Use Violence Without the Threat of Accountability

The security measures authorize officials to detain indigenous persons for lengthy periods without trial, based on general suspicions or secretand secret intelligence. When these people are detained and tried, they are basically tried by military courts. So you have indigenous people their denied protections, like juries, access to lawyers, rights of appeal,. r restrictions on the use of the death penalty. The laws say that when you detain some one, they are a you are empowered to use violence with minimal justification and limited liability.