UN Report Finds Evidence of Children Being Torture in Afghan Detention Facilities

[Hissyspit]

Source: BNO News - Channel 6 (NY)

UN report finds evidence of children being tortured in Afghan detention facilities

11 OCTOBER 2011

UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) -- Afghan detention facilities, which also hold children, have allegedly been carrying out 'systematic' torture and mistreatment of detainees, according to a newly-released United Nations (UN) report.

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) carried out an extensive investigation for the report, interviewing 379 pre-trial detainees and convicted prisoners at 47 facilities of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Afghan National Police (ANP) in 22 provinces from October 2010 to August. The report is the result of the investigation.

According to UNAMA, there is "compelling" evidence that 125 detainees, or 46 percent, of the 273 detainees interviewed who had been in NDS detention experienced interrogation techniques at the hands of NDS officials that constituted torture, and that torture is practiced "systematically" in a number of NDS detention facilities throughout Afghanistan.

The report also revealed that nearly all detainees tortured by NDS officials reported that the abuse took place during interrogations and was aimed at obtaining a confession or information.

Read more: http://channel6newsonline.com/2011/10/un-report-finds-evidence-of-children-being-tortured-in-afghan-detention-facilities/

[democrank]

1. Absolutely shameful

Too bad we didn`t set a better example.

[duhneece]

2. Torture, the new American value

No surprise that torture on a widespread basis entered our prisons, jails and law enforcement 'tools.'

[defendandprotect]

10. +1000% ---

[Scuba]

3. Children tortured in our names. Shame on America. Shame. n/t

[midnight]

4. The U.S. will deny it...

[tblue]

5. Will we even condemn it?

We are kinda on the hook over there. If we piss off the wrong people, we risk losing their support.

The whole freaking war is a disaster that did not have to happen. Those poor people.

[midnight]

12. I agree.... Let's bring them home.... and leave these people in peace.

[ccavagnolo]

6. The American education system

We teach the only ways we know.

[lovuian]

7. is this under US control of the detention center

this is awful
Is this under Obama's watch?

[crim son]

11. The article says that the the U.S. has stopped transferring

prisoners to centers that are reputed to use torture. I don't see that this is condoned by the U.S.

[bemildred]

8. Suspected insurgents tortured in Afghanistan, U.N. says

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan—
Suspected insurgents in Afghan custody have been subjected to torture including electric shocks, being hung by their hands and having their genitals twisted, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said in a report Monday.

The 74-page report, detailing a widespread pattern of brutal abuses, will probably complicate American efforts to hand over security responsibilities to Afghan authorities as a prelude to winding down the Western combat mission in Afghanistan.

"Torture is one of the most serious human rights violations under international law, a crime under Afghan law, and strictly prohibited under both laws," said Georgette Gagnon, the director of human rights for the U.N. mission. "Accountability for torture demands prosecutions and the taking of all necessary measures by Afghan authorities to prevent and end such acts in the future."

In a preemptive move, the NATO force announced last month that it had halted prisoner transfers to more than a dozen detainee centers named in the report, a draft of which was shown to American commanders. Many of the suspected fighters who end up in detention are captured in the field by U.S. and coalition forces.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-torture-20111011,0,1348792.story

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R