More and worse torture
Published May 09, 2004
It's only getting worse.
From Reuters: "Iraqi Detainees Allege Torture in U.S.-Run Jails":
Torture, abuse and humiliation of prisoners is widespread in U.S.-run detention centers in Iraq, and not limited to a few cases, non-governmental organizations in Iraq and an American Christian group said Sunday."We are here to tell the world that the cases of torture of Iraqi prisoners are not isolated incidents and they are not limited to Abu Ghraib prison, nor to the six U.S. MPs," a spokeswoman for the Iraqi Human Rights Organization (IHRO) told a news conference in Baghdad.
Al-Hammad, who is in his late 20s, said they were beaten and given electrical shocks. "I was naked apart from my underpants and they poured water on my back and then electrified me with an electrical stick," he said.
Najim Abdul-Majid, 45, a Baghdad shop owner detained with his 17-year-old son last August, said during interrogation his captors would chain him to the ceiling for three hours. "Beating and humiliation was the norm," he said."Once they took me to watch my son being tortured with electricity. He was tied to a pole while two wires were dangled on his back," he said.
(Originally posted on IntelliBlog)
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The U.S and the U.K wrote the books on torture?
Torture has been used long before there were any books! You don't even need a book to know that. Just know the nature of mankind....know thyself and know thy thoughts!
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Since both the US and UK not only wrote the books on torture, but set up schools, and established double dealing government coverups, what did you expect?
The treatment in Iraq is right out of how the UK treated the Irish in the 70s and 80s, and what the US applied to El Salvador and
Guatemala, and are currently using in Colombia. Oh, yeah, and concentration camps in Cuba. But it's only bad when Castro does it. But he isn't apparently.
Hypocritical scumbags.