Tortures were practiced in Algeria war. Evidently they weren’t questionned on the moral ground, but on the pragmatical’s. They weren’t advertised in the medias, and soldiers who could witness of them remained silent, I dunno if the raison was because they felt somewhere bad with their conscienceness or rather because it seemed to them that they had lived in a parallel world, that had no equivalence in a normal civil life. Some tortures practicians loose the limits of their faculty of reasoning.

This video “Intimate enemies” (“l’ennemi intime”, means in the french title : one’s conscienceness) shows it :

http://tinyurl.com/c7gbd8