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June 16, 2008

Torture at U.S. bases in Afghanistan [Peace and war, Human rights, Crime] — Administrator @ 4:20 pm

This video from the USA is called Moazzam Begg Speaks (former Bagram and Guantánamo detainee).

From the Miami Herald in the USA:

PART II | Guantánamo: Beyond the Law

Detainee abuse routine at U.S. bases in Afghanistan

Posted on Mon, Jun. 16, 2008

By TOM LASSETER
tlasseter@mcclatchydc.com

KABUL, Afghanistan — American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that’s used to corral livestock.

The guards kicked, kneed and punched many of the men until they collapsed in pain. U.S. troops shackled and dragged other detainees to small isolation rooms, then hung them by their wrists from chains dangling from the wire mesh ceiling.

Former guards and detainees whom McClatchy interviewed said Bagram was a center of systematic brutality for at least 20 months, starting in late 2001. Yet the soldiers responsible have escaped serious punishment.

The public outcry in the United States and abroad has focused on detainee abuse at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, but sadistic violence first appeared at Bagram, north of Kabul, and at a similar U.S. internment camp at Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.

“I was punched and kicked at Bagram. . . . At Bagram, when they took a man to interrogation at night, the next morning we would see him brought out on a stretcher looking almost dead,” said Aminullah, an Afghan who was held there for a little more than three months.

See also here.

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