> Australian TV airs more photos of US torture at Abu Ghraib
18 February 2006, 14:26
The published photos shows only a small fraction of the huge number of abuses committed on the detained Iraqis. The major abuses that should not be forgotten and must be lifted are:-
1- The detention of Iraqis was and has been illegal and unjustified, since the USA troops are invading forces.
2- After the establishment of the current and former Iraqi governments, the detention authority should be given to the Iraqi government and Iraqi justice. If that government is legal, as Mr. Bush administration speaks and ask Arab countries to resume diplomatic relation with it, then detention of Iraqis is part of its sovereignty .
3- Whoever was the detainer, the detainees should be sent to trial immediately and innocent ones should be sent free, and compensated for detention and mistreatment.
4- International Red Cross and Iraqi Red Crescent committees should have been allowed to visit the detainees, record them and report about their cases.
The large number of photos and the large versions of sadistic torture prove that large number of USA troops have been involved in the torture. Consequently, the violent torture was systematic policy of the USA troops. The puppet trials that have been applied on few USA soldiers refused to hear those on whom the abuses were committed !. The trials ended with minor sentences that too little compared to extent of damage incurred on the detainees. This is an other evidence that the abuses were the result of systematic policy of the USA troops.
In the light of the above points, the detention of Iraqis has been a major crime as it was the abuses committed against the detainees. We have heard many comments by humanitarian organizations condemning the abuses. In the meantime the UN nation express shy condemnation but it did very little to end the detention or at least to free the innocent ones who are the majority. The publication of the second set of photos is a second call, for those who claim to spread democracy and justice in the middle east, to prove, or at least pretend, that they are not liars.
The published photos shows only a small fraction of the huge number of abuses committed on the detained Iraqis. The major abuses that should not be forgotten and must be lifted are:-
1- The detention of Iraqis was and has been illegal and unjustified, since the USA troops are invading forces.
2- After the establishment of the current and former Iraqi governments, the detention authority should be given to the Iraqi government and Iraqi justice. If that government is legal, as Mr. Bush administration speaks and ask Arab countries to resume diplomatic relation with it, then detention of Iraqis is part of its sovereignty .
3- Whoever was the detainer, the detainees should be sent to trial immediately and innocent ones should be sent free, and compensated for detention and mistreatment.
4- International Red Cross and Iraqi Red Crescent committees should have been allowed to visit the detainees, record them and report about their cases.
The large number of photos and the large versions of sadistic torture prove that large number of USA troops have been involved in the torture. Consequently, the violent torture was systematic policy of the USA troops. The puppet trials that have been applied on few USA soldiers refused to hear those on whom the abuses were committed !. The trials ended with minor sentences that too little compared to extent of damage incurred on the detainees. This is an other evidence that the abuses were the result of systematic policy of the USA troops.
In the light of the above points, the detention of Iraqis has been a major crime as it was the abuses committed against the detainees. We have heard many comments by humanitarian organizations condemning the abuses. In the meantime the UN nation express shy condemnation but it did very little to end the detention or at least to free the innocent ones who are the majority. The publication of the second set of photos is a second call, for those who claim to spread democracy and justice in the middle east, to prove, or at least pretend, that they are not liars.