September 25, 2005
New Reports of Abuse of Detainees Surface
"Some days we would just get bored so we would have everyone sit in a corner and then make them get in a pyramid," ... "This was before Abu Ghraib but just like it. We did that for amusement."
Two soldiers and an officer with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division have told a human rights organization (The Human Rights Watch) of systemic detainee abuse and human rights violations at U.S. bases in Afghanistan and Iraq, recounting beatings, forced physical exertion and psychological torture of prisoners, the group said.
Their statements included vivid allegations of violence against detainees held at Forward Operating Base Mercury, outside Fallujah, shortly before the notorious abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison began.
They also detailed regular attacks that left detainees with broken bones -
And like soldiers accused at Abu Ghraib, these troops said that military intelligence interrogators encouraged their actions...
story | Wash. Post via Truthout
~More bad apples: this is so last year.
[photo not with story\ an Abu Ghraib 'pyramid'; not a Forward Operating Base Mercury or an Afghanistan US military-base pyramid]
~Boredom is torture too?
Posted by Cieciel at September 25, 2005 12:20 AM