Former terrorist suspects detained by the United States were tortured, according to medical examinations detailed in a report released Wednesday by a human rights group.
The Massachusetts-based Physicians for Human Rights reached that conclusion after two-day clinical evaluations of 11 former detainees, who had been held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan.
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The ICC Action group has submitted a brief to the International Criminal Court alleging that John Howard’s deployment of Australian troops to Iraq constitutes a war crime. Read more »
I intend to write something more broadly about the allegations against John Howard of war crimes, but for the moment I just wanted to note the ongoing tragedy that is named Andrew Bolt. Bolt casts the ICC as , among other things, anti-democratic (why not just say “un-Australian”?), “unrepresentative”, “ineffectival” (sic), and “unaccountable”. Read more »
The Australian media appears to have given up the task of asking Prime Minister John Howard hard questions about the Iraq War. This is regrettable, given that Howard has never provided a credible explanation for why our soldiers went into Iraq, what they are doing there, or how and when they will ever come home. A proper analysis of these questions reveals some hard facts about Australian society, the business of politics, and Australia’s place in the world today.
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