This video is called BBC America Report on Continued Torture - At Bagram AFB Afghanistan.
From the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan:
November 28, 2009Talking about Afghanistan; by Saeed Qureshi:Afghan teenagers claim abuse at a US prison
The two Afghans said they were beaten by American guards, photographed naked and deprived of sleep during their detention at Bagram airbase.
Two Afghan teenagers held in a prison in northern Kabul say they have been abused by US forces in Afghanistan, The Washington Post has reported.
In an article published on Friday, the newspaper said the Afghan teens had been held in solitary confinement in concrete cells for at least two weeks while undergoing daily interrogation about their alleged links to the Taliban.
The two Afghans said they were beaten by American guards, photographed naked and deprived of sleep during their detention at Bagram airbase.
According to the article, the two teenagers, Issa Mohammad, 17, and Abdul Rashid, (who claimed to be under the age of 16), said they were punched and slapped in the face by American guards during their incarceration.
Obama had promised to put an end to the harsh interrogation methods previously authorized by the Bush administration.
The facility described by the two Afghans appears to be a holding center run by US Special Operations forces on a different part of the Bagram base, the main American-run prison, the paper noted.
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Jonathan Horowitz, who works on detention issues in Afghanistan for the Open Society Institute, said: “These allegations of physical and mental abuse at a secretive facility are, if true, patently unacceptable and must be investigated.”
The Washington Post says there have been different reports about the existence of an interrogation facility at Bagram run by Special Operations forces, but little has been revealed about living conditions or interrogation methods there. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been demanding access to the facility and to the detainees there but thus far, its requests have not been granted.
Despite his umpteen follies, and in the face of a bogus election façade, Hamid Karzai has again assumed the presidency in Kabul. The degeneracy of a poltical system is manifest in the exigent way this most mind boggling anti-democratic feat was surmounted with the explicit blessing of America.The Globe and Mail’s foreign correspondent Graeme Smith has written an opinion piece calling for Canadian troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan: here.
Afghan Mission In Doubt After Lies About Civilian Deaths Force German Minister To Resign: here.
