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Red cross damning report on abuse and torture

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  • 08-05-2004 2:58pm
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    Memnoch
    Registered Users Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3694521.stm

    okay here we go
    The mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in US custody is not limited to isolated cases but forms part of a systematic pattern, the Red Cross has said.

    A spokesman said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had been warning the US about such cases for more than a year.

    He was responding to the publication of parts of a leaked ICRC report.
    The report says abuses have been committed at a number of facilities - not just Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, which is the focus of allegations against US soldiers.

    The report concludes there have been serious violations of the Geneva Conventions governing the treatment of prisoners of war.

    oh wait there is MORE.....
    The report says the ill-treatment was widely tolerated, especially with regard to extracting information from Iraqis.

    WIDELY TOLERATED = sanctioned/condoned
    "We were dealing here with a broad pattern, not individual acts. There was a pattern and a system," he said.

    Mr Kraehenbuehl said that over the last year the Red Cross had repeatedly warned the Bush administration that the conditions at the Abu Ghraib needed changing.

    BROAD PATTERN, NOT individual acts..

    Bush administration had repeated warnings...

    i was right?


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    shotamoose
    Registered Users Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭shotamoose


    Originally posted by Memnoch
    I was right?

    What's this thread about - systematic abuse of prisoners in Iraq or you being right?


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    Memnoch
    Registered Users Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭Memnoch


    Originally posted by shotamoose
    What's this thread about - systematic abuse of prisoners in Iraq or you being right?

    its about the red cross's report isn't it :)

    i felt it fair to also point out as a side note that I was right


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    bonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Originally posted by Memnoch
    i felt it fair to also point out as a side note that I was right

    Why? Did anyone claim that it wasn't widespread (as opposed to saying that it wasn't by any means certain that it was widespread) that you being right is somehow significant?

    jc


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