Israeli soldiers admit degrading acts

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Israeli soldiers admit degrading acts
By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
Monday 27 September 2004

The Israeli state-run radio on Monday reported that five Israeli occupation soldiers had confessed to committing "degrading acts" against two Palestinian youths earlier this month.

According to the radio, the soldiers were manning a roadblock outside the Palestinian neighbourhood of Abu Dis when they allegedly detained, beat and humiliated two unidentified Palestinian boys.

According to press reports, the soldiers forced the boys into an abandoned house near the roadblock. There they urinated in to a small plastic bucket, dipped the boys' identity cards in and, at gun point, forced them to retrieve the IDs with their mouths.

According to testimonies made by the boys to the Israeli human rights organisation Btselem, the soldiers also extinguished cigarettes on their skin.

Before being released, they were ordered to jump from the roof of the one-storey building, causing unspecific injuries.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B094E2B5-8855-45A8-80B5-A54445C8511D.htm

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1. a couple other bits..

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Earlier this month, Israeli media reported that three other border police forced a Palestinian to drink urine at a checkpoint near Ram Allah.
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The soldiers reportedly threatened to kill him if he did not heed their orders, telling him they would shoot him and then claim that he attacked them and they killed in self-defence.

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"Every policeman involved in such acts knows deep in his heart that he won't be punished and that even if punished the punishment will be petty and symbolic."

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same link as above.

Um ... oh.

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