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muriel_volestrangler

(101,422 posts) Tue Jul 26, 2016, 05:11 AM Jul 2016

'Abu Ghraib'-style images of children in detention in Australia trigger public inquiry

Source: The Guardian

Australia’s prime minister has launched a public inquiry following the broadcast of footage of children in detention being abused, hooded and bound in a manner likened to Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay.

Malcolm Turnbull announced a royal commission hours after the national broadcaster aired shocking footage showing children in detention at the Don Dale facility outside Darwin in the Northern Territory.

Footage aired on the ABC’s Four Corners program on Monday showed one youth being stripped and physically held down by guards.

In another scene that the program compared with images from Guantánamo Bay or the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad, 17-year-old Dylan Voller was shown hooded and tied in a restraint chair for two hours.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/26/abu-ghraib-images-children-detention-australia-public-inquiry

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'Abu Ghraib'-style images of children in detention in Australia trigger public inquiry (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jul 2016 OP

Holy shit, I expected better from Australia ansible Jul 2016 #1

Not me. It is skin-head heaven. nt glennward Jul 2016 #2

Republicans have shown the world that it is "OK" to do this RapSoDee Jul 2016 #3

Shocking and very unexpected that this would happen in of all of places Australia. avaistheone1 Jul 2016 #4

Not surprised unfortunately NWCorona Jul 2016 #5

It's just letting us know 2naSalit Jul 2016 #6

ansible

(1,718 posts)

1. Holy shit, I expected better from Australia

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 06:00 AM

Jul 2016

glennward

(989 posts)

2. Not me. It is skin-head heaven. nt

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 07:37 AM

Jul 2016

RapSoDee

(421 posts)

3. Republicans have shown the world that it is "OK" to do this

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 09:06 AM

Jul 2016

Now everyone is following the Republican torture lead down the degenerate path to inhumane action in the world.

avaistheone1

(14,626 posts)

4. Shocking and very unexpected that this would happen in of all of places Australia.

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 09:33 AM

Jul 2016

Sickening!!!

NWCorona

(8,541 posts)

5. Not surprised unfortunately

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 10:24 AM

Jul 2016

2naSalit

(86,997 posts)

6. It's just letting us know

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 11:05 AM

Jul 2016

that the intentional perpetuation of war and fomenting the hatred that feeds the war machine is up and functioning as intended and is global. This is really what globalization is all about.

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