US accused of Afghan jail deaths

[DoYouEverWonder]

13 December, 2004

The New York-based campaign group Human Rights Watch says it has uncovered evidence that three more prisoners have died in US detention in Afghanistan.

In a damning open letter to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, it says the US is continuing to fail to investigate abuses or punish the guilty.

Human Rights Watch also calls on the US military to publish a delayed internal report on its Afghan detention centres.

The US authorities promised to release parts of the report several months ago.

The group says the three new cases of detainees dying in American custody bring to six the total it has documented over the past few years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4092073.stm

[Judi Lynn]

1. "Four cases involve allegations of murder or manslaughter. "

What it calls the "government's failure to hold its personnel accountable for serious abuses has spawned a culture of impunity among some personnel".
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One of the new cases refers to a soldier from the US-trained Afghan army, who reportedly died after being wrongly arrested in the Gardez area of eastern Afghanistan and repeatedly beaten by American troops.
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What it calls the "government's failure to hold its personnel accountable for serious abuses has spawned a culture of impunity among some personnel".
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The Human Rights Watch letter also points out that the US-run detention system in Afghanistan operates entirely outside the rule of law.
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They actually feel it's fine to mangle, mutilate these citizens because we want to. Who's going to prevent it? Oh, why not?

It would take a few people of character deciding to refuse to maim and degrade themselves by acting like fiends and monsters toward these citizens to turn the tide, wouldn't you think?

The article says that even though _Bush in his greatness will allow the Red Cross in (probably with notice far in advance) to look around, they are not allowed to publish their findings.

So what DOES that mean? It's time _Bush stopped pretending to be a president while his fellow psychopaths destroy the world. Can you IMAGINE where _Bush would be today if it weren't for his parents insulating him from the natural reactions which would follow his sadistic decisions?