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Coalition Troops Are Accused of Torture
EFLIt was only a matter of time... Amnesty International is investigating claims that British and American troops tortured prisoners of war in Iraq with night-long beatings and, in at least one case, electric shocks, the group said Friday. The human rights organization gathered statements from 20 former detainees who said they had been kicked and beaten by soldiers while being interrogated, Amnesty researcher Said Boumedouha told a news conference in London. One Saudi Arabian national claimed he was tortured with electric shocks, Boumedouha said. There I was, just enjoying the great beaches around Basra, when these nasty British soldiers came along... When asked if his use of the word "torture" accurately described the alleged treatment, Boumedouha responded: "If you keep beating somebody for the whole night and somebody is bleeding and you are breaking teeth, it is more than beating. I think that is torture." It'd take a platoon working in relays to keep beating one guy all night. I must have missed those special torture brigades we sent over. The Saudi who said he was given electric shocks told Amnesty he had entered Iraq from Syria to volunteer for the Iraqi Red Cross Society, according to the Boumedouha. There. That explains it all. He was just there out of a sense of Muslim charity. Boumedouha said the group planned to present its findings to British and U.S. authorities. And the Internation Criminal Court as well as the Belgian ones too! "We still have people on the ground in Iraq and we will continue to gain testimonies," Boumedouha said. "Once that is complete we hope to provide a full dossier to present to the British and American authorities as well as publishing ourselves." What a pity you all couldn't have done the same while Saddam was actually in power. Oh wait. That would have meant putting your lives in danger like the men and women who just liberated Iraq. But we can't risk the necks of elite folk like you, no doubt educated in America's and Europe's best universities. Good thing you waited until the blue collar blokes in the military cleared the way. Posted by: 11A5S 2003-05-16 |
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