Amnesty International releases NEW accounts of Gitmo abuse, torture

[kpete]

Amnesty International releases accounts of Gitmo abuse, torture
RAW STORY
Published: January 10, 2006


Amnesty International has released accounts alleging new prisoner torture and abuse in Guantanamo Bay and Kandahar, Afghanistan to RAW STORY Tuesday.

Bahraini national Jumah al-Dossari was among the detainees. In testimony written in Guantanamo Bay, July 2005, he alleges numerous instances of physical and psychological abuse by U.S. personnel and Pakistani authorities. Read his full, graphic testimony here.

Below are some excerpts, as released by Amnesty International:


Transfer to Guantбnamo Bay, Cuba

"It was then that my suffering started. If we wanted to go to the outside toilet, a portaloo, the soldiers would take us violently and would look at our genitals; even the female soldiers did that. They would stand outside the door which was open while we relieved ourselves."
Torture and ill-treatment in Guantбnamo Bay

"During investigations, I was threatened with rape, attacks on my family in Saudi Arabia, my daughter being kidnapped, and my murder – assassination – by their spies in the Middle East if I went back to Saudi Arabia.

"They went to a detainee and put his head in the toilet. The toilets in Camp Delta are iron, Turkish-style toilets and then they flushed his head down the toilet until he almost died. They went to a detainee and started beating his head against the toilet rim until he lost consciousness and he could not see for more than 10 hours."

"One detainee, called Abdul Aziz Al-Masri, was ill and was asleep in the hospital. These soldiers went and beat him very badly in the hospital in front of the doctors and nurses. His injuries were excessive and caused his spine to break. He is now hemiplegic. They are now trying to operate on him but he is refusing out of fear that they will play with his back and make it worse rather than make it better as their operations often do. These kinds of incidents happen often. They would make sending them to the detainees an excuse for incidents in which we would suffer extensive injuries, severe disfiguration and fractures as there was no one monitoring or following up their actions. Rather, their officers and officials gave them the orders."

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Amnesty_International_releases_accounts_of_Gitmo_0110.html

[Time for change]

1. I hope this gets some wide distribution n/t

[kpete]

2. I Hate to say it but ---FAT CHANCE

Still, if each one of us were to tell two people...

[mom cat]

7. Bingo...We MUST be the media. I am sending it out to all I know!

PS: Rate this up. It helps.

[LibertyorDeath]

8. Right we are the Media whether we want to be or not

The MSM has become the propaganda Arm of this administration.

WE ARE THE MEDIA.

:toast:

[mom cat]

10. "We the people" have more power than we think. It is difuse, but deep.

[Richard Steele]

3. Kicked and recommended.

[sweetm2475]

4. Kicking someone with metal in their stomach till they vomit blood?????

"I had had an operation on my stomach and there was a piece of metal in it; when I complained about the severity of the pain, a soldier came and started kicking me in my stomach with his military boot until I vomited blood"

OMFG - I USED to be in the military. What the hell has happened to our country and our soldiers? The people I used to work and serve with everyday would NEVER do shit like this. WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!

[spanone]

5. Let's observe how quick & efficiently our 'Free Press' gets the word out.

:sarcasm:

[xynthee]

6. Truly horrific

I really hope this guy is just making all this shit up!

I understand why most people in Amurka choose not to dig too deeply into ANYthing - it's hard to deal with the reality of it all. We're the terraists!!! Quite a rude awakening after a lifetime of being brainwashed into believing that we're a beacon of hope and justice to the rest of the world. I know - it was stupid of me EVER to believe it, but how I long for the days when I didn't cringe in shame and horror at what MY fucking country was doing!!

By the way, here's some of what my fucking country has been doing (God Bless the USA!!):cry: :

"Once, they poured boiling hot liquid on my head and the investigator stubbed his cigarette out on my foot. I said to him, "why are you treating me like this?" He then took a cigarette and stubbed it out on my right wrist and said, "in the name of Christ and the Cross I am doing this". Once, they had beaten me so severely that my clothes were ripped and my genitals were exposed. I tried to cover myself up but they started kicking me with their boots.

They stripped me of my clothes and lay me flat on the ground. One of the soldiers urinated on my head and my face after one of the other soldiers had raised my head by the hair. After that, a soldier brought petrol and injected it into my penis. I screamed because it was extremely painful. They took me back to the camp after a long night of torture. I was bleeding where they had injected the petrol and it was very swollen so I asked to see the doctor. When I met the doctor and told him what had happened, he became very angry and said, "you’re a liar and a terrorist and you deserve worse than this". He left me and went away. When it was almost sunset, they took me to the investigation tent, the torture tent, and beat me as they were taking me there. I saw the investigator and he was really angry with me; he said, "you’ve been complaining to the doctor about us?! We’ll show you what we’ll do to you" and they hit me really hard all over my body. They started kicking me with their boots and then they took me to another camp while I was blindfolded. I heard an Afghani prisoner scream; he was crying and saying, "O Allah, O God", in Afghani and other words in his language that I did not understand. When I approached the door of the camp, they took off the blindfold.

I saw an Afghani brother in his fifties, he had a lot of white hair in his beard, and he was tied to the ground. Soldiers were holding on to his shackles and he was naked and lying on his stomach. One of the soldiers was sexually assaulting him. One of the soldiers had a video camera with him and was taping this distressing scene. The investigator said to me, "he was with the Taliban and he doesn’t want to confess" They made me really scared; I became hysterical and I almost went mad out of fear. They put the blindfold back on my eyes and took me back to the same tent where they were beating me. The investigator said to me, "if you complain again or talk about what happens here, we will do the same thing to you that we did to that Afghan terrorist". Then he hit me very hard and they took me back to my tent.

"O Allah, how hard these painful memories are. Now, as I am writing about what happened here and these events pass through my mind, I feel as if I will lose my mind, my body is shaking and I am overcome by strange, painful feelings. Did I really live through those events myself? Images of that old Afghani man, crying and cursing them are still in my mind, images of those hours I spent being tortured still haunt me and what was to come was even worse. Once, while being tortured, the investigator brought a small device like a mobile phone but it was an electric shock device. He started shocking my face, my back, my limbs and my genitals. They plucked out most of my beard."

[Hissyspit]

9. kick

[MetaTrope]

11. Remember the days when the thought of torture by the U.S.

let alone having its viability become a national DEBATE...was unimaginable?