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Troops 'have been abusing Iraqis for a year'
(Marian Wilkinson, smh.com.au, May 5, 2004)
At least four Iraqi detainees have died in British custody in the past year, one as a result of torture, says the human rights group Amnesty International, while the CIA admits it is investigating the death of a prisoner under interrogation. . . . In Australia, the Federal Opposition condemned the Government for an "immoral disinterest" in the treatment of Iraqi prisoners and warned it had a legal responsibility to them. . . . Amnesty issued a disturbing report on Iraq last month detailing allegations of torture and ill-treatment by US and British forces in Iraq that are remarkably similar to the evidence that has now surfaced. But its report indicates that the abuses began when US-led coalition forces gained control of Iraq in April last year and took place throughout the country. . . . The report found at least four detainees have died in British military custody, and in one case the cause of death was torture. The report referred to a hearing in February into the death of an Iraqi at a detention centre in Nasiriyah, where a former US marine testified it was common practice "to kick and punch prisoners who did not co-operate, and even some who did". . . . That hearing involved the death of a former Baath party official who was beaten and choked by a US marine reservist. . . . The Amnesty report also noted that thousands of Iraqis had been arrested without charge and many held indefinitely as "suspected terrorists" or "security" detainees. . . . Amnesty repeated its call for an independent inquiry, saying the abuses were more widespread than acknowledged and included the still unexplained deaths of two prisoners under interrogation in Afghanistan. . . . "The problem seems to extend beyond one prison and one theatre," said its Washington spokesman, Alistair Hodgett. . . . A United Nations human rights investigator has called for an independent inquiry into the impact on civilians of the US military's month-long siege of Falluja. . . . There were credible claims that US-led forces in Iraq "have been guilty of serious breaches of international humanitarian and human rights law in Falluja in recent weeks", the UN special rapporteur Paul Hunt said on Monday.

posted by Lorenzo 12:05 PM