حال ہی میں Physicians for Human Rights کی ایک چشم کشا رپورٹ امریکا کے انسانیت سوز مظالم کے بارے میں شائع ہوئی ہے یہ افغانستان عراق اور گوانتاناموبے وغیرہ میں کیے گئے امریکی تشدد اور مظالم کی داستان ہے اور یہ مظالم ان لوگوں پر کیے گئے جو کہ Physicians for Human Rights کے الفاظ میں These men were never charged with any crime.یعنی ان مظلوموں کو بالکل بے گناہ امریکی تشدد کا نشانہ بنایا گیا۔ اس رپورٹ کا مقدمہ Major General Antonio
Taguba, USA (Ret.) نے لکھا ہے جو کہ مشہور ابو غریب جیل کے اسکنڈل کے تحقیقتی سربراہ تھے یہ مقدمہ اور اس ویب سائٹ کا پتہ جہاں سے یہ پوری رپورٹ ڈاون لوڈکی جاسکتی ہے http://brokenlives.info/
This report tells the largely untold human story of
what happened to detainees in our custody when
Tthe Commander-in-Chief and those under him
authorized a systematic regime of torture. This story is
not only written in words: It is scrawled for the rest of
these individual’s lives on their bodies and minds. Our
national honor is stained by the indignity and inhumane
treatment these men received from their captors.
The profiles of these eleven former detainees, none
of whom were ever charged with a crime or told why
they were detained, are tragic and brutal rebuttals to
those who claim that torture is ever justiied. Through
the experiences of these men in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Guantanamo Bay, we can see the full-scope of the damage
this illegal and unsound policy has inlicted —both on
America’s institutions and our nation’s founding values,
which the military, intelligence services, and our justice
system are duty-bound to defend.
In order for these individuals to suffer the wanton
cruelty to which they were subjected, a government
policy was promulgated to the ield whereby the Geneva
Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice
were disregarded. The UN Convention Against Torture
was indiscriminately ignored. And the healing profes-
sions, including physicians and psychologists, became
complicit in the willful inliction of harm against those
the Hippocratic Oath demands they protect.
After years of disclosures by government inves-
tigations, media accounts, and reports from human
rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to
whether the current administration has committed war
crimes. The only question that remains to be answered
is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be
held to account.
The former detainees in this report, each of whom
is ighting a lonely and dificult battle to rebuild his life,
require reparations for what they endured, comprehen-
sive psycho-social and medical assistance, and even an
oficial apology from our government.
But most of all, these men deserve justice as required
under the tenets of international law and the United
States Constitution.
And so do the American people.
Major General Antonio
Taguba, USA (Ret.)
Maj. General Taguba led the US Army’s official
investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse
scandal and testified before Congress on his
findings in May, 2004.
.
Taguba, USA (Ret.) نے لکھا ہے جو کہ مشہور ابو غریب جیل کے اسکنڈل کے تحقیقتی سربراہ تھے یہ مقدمہ اور اس ویب سائٹ کا پتہ جہاں سے یہ پوری رپورٹ ڈاون لوڈکی جاسکتی ہے http://brokenlives.info/
This report tells the largely untold human story of
what happened to detainees in our custody when
Tthe Commander-in-Chief and those under him
authorized a systematic regime of torture. This story is
not only written in words: It is scrawled for the rest of
these individual’s lives on their bodies and minds. Our
national honor is stained by the indignity and inhumane
treatment these men received from their captors.
The profiles of these eleven former detainees, none
of whom were ever charged with a crime or told why
they were detained, are tragic and brutal rebuttals to
those who claim that torture is ever justiied. Through
the experiences of these men in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Guantanamo Bay, we can see the full-scope of the damage
this illegal and unsound policy has inlicted —both on
America’s institutions and our nation’s founding values,
which the military, intelligence services, and our justice
system are duty-bound to defend.
In order for these individuals to suffer the wanton
cruelty to which they were subjected, a government
policy was promulgated to the ield whereby the Geneva
Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice
were disregarded. The UN Convention Against Torture
was indiscriminately ignored. And the healing profes-
sions, including physicians and psychologists, became
complicit in the willful inliction of harm against those
the Hippocratic Oath demands they protect.
After years of disclosures by government inves-
tigations, media accounts, and reports from human
rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to
whether the current administration has committed war
crimes. The only question that remains to be answered
is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be
held to account.
The former detainees in this report, each of whom
is ighting a lonely and dificult battle to rebuild his life,
require reparations for what they endured, comprehen-
sive psycho-social and medical assistance, and even an
oficial apology from our government.
But most of all, these men deserve justice as required
under the tenets of international law and the United
States Constitution.
And so do the American people.
Major General Antonio
Taguba, USA (Ret.)
Maj. General Taguba led the US Army’s official
investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse
scandal and testified before Congress on his
findings in May, 2004.
.
