Red Cross: U.S. May Have Committed War Crimes at Guantanamo Bay

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Thursday, August 5th, 2004

Michael Ratner, from the Center for Constitutional Rights, outlights a new report on how three British detainees were tortured in U.S. detention. The men said they were beaten, shackled, photographed naked and in one incident questioned at gunpoint while in US custody.

The Red Cross said yesterday that the U.S. may have committed war crimes at Guantanamo Bay if reports of detainees being tortured at the military base are true. This according to a report in the Guardian of London. The comment by the Red Cross comes a day after three former detainees from Britain revealed they were the victims of systemic abuse at the hands of their US captors both in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay. A Red Cross spokesperson told the Guardian "Some of the abuses alleged by the detainees would indeed constitute inhuman treatment." And that "Inhuman treatment constitutes a grave breach of the third Geneva convention and these are often also described as war crimes."

The former detainees, Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed, released a 115-page report yesterday that claimed they were beaten, shackled, photographed naked and, in one incident, questioned at gunpoint while in US custody.

More: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/05/1432259

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. May? MAY have?

C'mon, it's about fucking time they pull their heads out of their asses and get vocal about this. I know the Red Cross doesn't want to be political, but goddamnit they see what we're doing and need to speak up.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate topic in Late Breaking News

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