'Abritrary' Detention Fueling 'Dire' Situation in Iraq

[kpete]

Published on Sunday, March 5, 2006 by Agence France Presse
'Abritrary' Detention Fueling 'Dire' Situation in Iraq: Amnesty




Tens of thousands of people have been held "arbitrarily" in Iraq since the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003, creating a situation that is ripe for abuse, Amnesty International has said.


'Abritrary' detention fuelling 'dire' situation in Iraq: Amnesty

Most of those held were neither charged nor faced trial and had no basic right to challenge their detention, the London-based human rights group said as it launched a new report "Beyond Abu Ghraib: Detention and Torture in Iraq".

"Nearly three years after the US and allied forces invaded Iraq and toppled the government of Saddam Hussein, the human rights situation in the country remains dire," it said.

"The deployment of US-led forces in Iraq and the armed response that engendered has resulted in thousands of deaths of civilians and widespread abuses amid the ongoing conflict."

The report details what AI calls "human rights violations for which the US-led MNF (multi-national force) is directly responsible" as well as those increasingly committed by Iraqi security forces.

"The record of these forces, including US forces and their United Kingdom allies, is an unpalatable one," they note.

It added: "Since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, tens of thousands of people have been detained by foreign forces, mainly the US forces, without being charged or tried and without the right to challenge their detention before a judicial body."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0305-01.htm

[redphish]

1. So these are the terrorist training camps I've heard so much about

They've got to let them out eventually.

[libodem]

2. I swear History will paint this blackmark as a stain

on American's behavior that rivals Hitler's treatment of the Jews. Take a race of people and objectify them into subhumans and this is what happens. Presumed guilty before you can prove yourself innocent. As you do the the least of my brethren you do unto me. Christ, would have a fit over how, George Bush, conducts himself. I'm not religious by any means but that man has broken every Christian principle that was ever intended. I can only hope his Karma gives him the rewards he so justly deserves.