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US accused of more abuse in Iraq
(BBC NEWS, 24 September 2005)
Human Rights Watch has published a report giving fresh details of alleged torture and abuse of detainees by US forces in Iraq. . . . The report quotes three US soldiers who described routine, severe beatings of prisoners, including a detainee's leg being broken with a baseball bat. . . . Other allegations included applying burning chemicals to detainees' eyes and skin, making them glow in the dark. . . . The Human Rights Watch (HRW) report is based on interviews with a captain and two sergeants who served in a battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division. . . . They said abuse, at a military base called Mercury near Falluja, was not only overlooked, but was sometimes ordered. . . . The punishments handed out included sleep deprivation, withholding food and water, "human pyramids" like those seen in photos from Abu Ghraib prison, and blows to the face, the report claimed. . . . One of the soldiers told HRW the abuse was ordered by intelligence officers in an attempt to gain information. . . . Another said it was seen as "sport". . . . "Everyone in camp knew if you wanted to work out your frustration you show up at the [interrogation] tent," he reportedly said. . . . "As long as no PUCs [prisoners under control] came up dead, it happened," he said. . . . "We kept it to broken arms and legs." . . . HRW said the reports "suggest that the mistreatment of prisoners by the US military is even more widespread than has been acknowledged to date".

posted by LoZo 1:12 PM