Red Cross Sees Torture-Like Abuse in Iraq

GENEVA (Reuters) - Iraqis held by U.S. forces have been subjected to systematic degrading treatment, sometimes close to torture, that may have been officially condoned, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday.

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"Our findings do not allow us to conclude that what we were dealing with ... were isolated acts of individual members of coalition forces. What we have described is a pattern and a broad system," he said."

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According to the Journal, whose report was confirmed as accurate by the ICRC, ill-treatment was most common during questioning, when interrogators were seeking information or confessions. Examples included:


-- "Hooding a detainee with a bag, sometimes in conjunction with beatings thus increasing anxiety as to when blows would come."


-- "Handcuffing so tight that they caused skin lesions and nerve damage; beating with pistols and rifles; threats of reprisals against family members; and stripping detainees naked for several days in solitary confinement in a completely dark cell."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040507/ts_nm/iraq_abuse_redcross_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

Since, from a post I put up earlier, there's nothing the International community can or will do against this regime, what redress do civilized, decent human beings have?

When the world stood by like this 60 year ago, 40 million people perished.

Not torture-like, not tantamount torture, not torture-lite.

In for a penny, in for a pound.