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Southeast Asia
Malaysia ’abuses terror suspects’
2004-05-26
File under "No skin off my fore"...
Abuses have included beatings, burning with cigarettes and sexual humiliation, the New York-based organisation says in a report issued on Tuesday. Some suspects have been told they will be handed over to the US authorities at Guantanamo Bay, it adds.
Oh, the horror!
The Malaysian government has denied mistreating prisoners. Human Rights Watch says about 100 terror suspects have been held without charge under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act - some for almost three years.
You're breakin' my heart...
The report says detainees have been subjected to sexually humiliating interrogations and forced to stand semi-naked for long periods. Human Rights Watch has urged the Malaysian government to allow independent monitors into its detention centres.
I urge them to simply cut the Bad Guys' heads off...
"US abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo shows what can happen behind closed doors," said Sam Zarifi, the group’s deputy director for Asia.
And Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl show what can happen when the Bad Guys are the ones in charge...
Kuala Lumpur has rejected allegations of prisoner abuse. Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar last week said recent reports of mistreatment were "wild". He called on human rights groups to stop "harping on countries that have got a very good and clear track record". Human Rights Watch says interrogators have used the US camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba as a threat. Detainees who refused to "cooperate" with Malaysian security officials were told they could be transferred to US custody there, the report says. "The Malaysian government uses Guantanamo as a sword and a shield," Mr Zarifi said. "Abuses by US authorities in the ’war on terror’ give cover to governments that abuse their own citizens."
"Maybe if they just asked nicely, the citizens would stop killing people!"
Malaysia’s Internal Security Act was approved in 1960 in response to a communist insurgency. It allows for indefinite detention and in the past has been used against opponents of the governing UMNO party. Since 2001 it has been widely invoked in the fight against militant groups. Most of the 100-odd detainees are accused of being linked to the regional radical group Jemaah Islamiah.
Posted by:tipper

#8  I'm thinking "Elizabethan Dog Collars" for the next series of pics

woof!
Posted by: Frank G   2004-05-26 12:28:59 PM  

#7  Also, are they telling the prisoners that Lyndie England will be guarding them once they get to Cuba?

"Arf, Arf!"
Posted by: BigEd   2004-05-26 11:56:14 AM  

#6  Some suspects have been told they will be handed over to the US authorities at Guantanamo Bay. . .

And the prisoners are then supposed to behave?

Dang. Are we bad, or are we bad!


Posted by: BigEd   2004-05-26 11:36:18 AM  

#5  Human Rights Watch is engaged in the mission of undermining America's allies. They know that only America will pressure friendly countries into taking the steps that will lead to their government's overthrow. It is interesting to note that in East Asia, most of the countries that were America's staunch allies before the US engineered the toppling of their dictators are now essentially neutral, bordering on hostile - Indonesia, South Korea and the Philippines are cases in point. By contrast, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, who are under the old authoritarian rulers, remain relatively staunch in their cooperation with the US, whatever their public utterances.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2004-05-26 9:56:34 AM  

#4  I know I'm a little slow on the up-take,but why is a threat of transfer to Gitmo a violation of someone's human rights?
Posted by: Raptor   2004-05-26 9:54:19 AM  

#3  Why is it only terrorists can be abused and 'humiliated'?

That is the only kind of abuse the media reports. What about Sudan? What about the UN's sex for food program in Nigeria (where UN Guards would exchange food for sex with teenage girls)?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-05-26 9:36:22 AM  

#2  Terrorists will play the abuse and humiliation card if it works. If they succeed in some nasty domestic attacks, the public will not give a rodent's behind what the authorities do with them if they are caught. Actually, being faced with the business end of a german shepherd snout will instill a healthy dose of fear into someone determined to cause mischief.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-05-26 9:11:13 AM  

#1  I'm beginning to think that allowing terrorists to surrender is too big of a hassle. I'm sure that you can get some enough intel off their hard drives and cells phones. Authorize hollow points for use against terrorists.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-05-26 3:09:42 AM  

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