Religions > Atheism > American Gulags Holding Children As Young As 8: Jimmy Carter
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"Michelle Malkin" |
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American Gulags Holding Children As Young As 8: Jimmy Carter |
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:52:17 -0800
From: Zepp <zepp@finestplanet.com>
Subject: #American Gulags holding children as young as 8: Jimmy Carter
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/17/75558/359
17 Dec 2005 By Tonyahky
US Holding Children in Prison Camps as POW's
Today, I started reading former President Jimmy Carter's
new book, "Our Endangered Values". In it, he revealed
something that is absolutely horrifying--the US is holding
children as young as 8 years of age who have been captured
in Afghanistan and Iraq in prison camps--namely, the one
in Guantanamo. Worse yet, Donald Rumsfeld knew about it.
Read a short excerpt below :
"After visiting six of the twenty-five or so US prisons, the
International Committee of the Red Cross reported registering
107 detainess under eighteen, some as young as eight years old.
The Journalist Seymour Hersh reported in May 2005 that
Defense Secretaary Donald Rumsfeld had recieve a report
that there were "800-900 Pakistani boys age 13-15 in
custody."
The International Red Cross, Amnesty International, and
thePentagon have gathered substantial testimony of torture
of children ( emphasis mine), confirmed by soldiers who
witnessed or participated in the abuse. In addition
to personal testimony from children about physical and
mental mistreatment, a report from Brigadier General
Janis Karpinski, formerly in charge of Abu Ghraib,
described a visit to an eleven year old detainee in
the cell block that housed high risk prisoners. The
general recalled that the child was weeping, and "he
told me he was almost twelve," and that "he really
wanted to see his mother, could he please call his
mother." Children like this eleven year old have been
denied the right to see their parents, a lawyer, or
anyone else, and were not told why they were detained.
A Pentagon spokesman told Mr. Hersh that "age is not
a determining factor in detention."
This is an absolute outrage. How could any normal, sane
person ever, ever in their lives even think about torturing
a child ? That our own military could engage in such acts
of evil, sadistic brutality -- AGAINST CHILDREN -- is
almost too horrible to even think about.
Every single sick SOB who had a part in this needs
to be sent to prison for the rest of their lives, including
Rumsfeld.
Reports like this help to illustrate why torture is wrong --
the kind of people who will actually do it are the lowest,
sickest breed of human beings -- the kind who have no moral
qualms about inflicting abuse on anyone -- regardless of age,
or any other factor.
I also published the above report on my little blog, Rebellious
Peasant (1).
I think the general public needs to find out about this, and
I hope people reading this will spread the word. We cannot
tolerate behavior like this from the people who are supposed
to be protecting our country.
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/17/75558/359
(1) http://www.rebelpeasant.blogspot.com
http://www.kuwaitifreedom.org
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| Title: Re: American Gulags Holding Children As Young As 8: Jimmy Carter |
19 Dec 2005 11:09:10 AM |
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In article <WNCdnc_4J8OIizvenZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d@comcast.com>, Michelle Malkin wrote:
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:52:17 -0800
From: Zepp <zepp@finestplanet.com>
Subject: #American Gulags holding children as young as 8: Jimmy Carter
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/17/75558/359
17 Dec 2005 By Tonyahky
US Holding Children in Prison Camps as POW's
As far as I know they aren't being held as POWs just as detainees.
POWs have certain very specific rights which these children (and most
of the others) aren't receiving. Nor do they seem to be receiving
some of the rights due to civilian detainees under the Geneva
Conventions and other laws (POWs are protected under convention III
and civilians under convention IV, various other laws cover the rest).
Also see
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/usa-detention-update-121205?OpenDocument
....
The International Red Cross, Amnesty International, and
thePentagon have gathered substantial testimony of torture
of children ( emphasis mine), confirmed by soldiers who
witnessed or participated in the abuse. In addition
to personal testimony from children about physical and
mental mistreatment, a report from Brigadier General
Janis Karpinski, formerly in charge of Abu Ghraib,
described a visit to an eleven year old detainee in
the cell block that housed high risk prisoners. The
general recalled that the child was weeping, and "he
told me he was almost twelve," and that "he really
wanted to see his mother, could he please call his
mother." Children like this eleven year old have been
denied the right to see their parents, a lawyer, or
anyone else, and were not told why they were detained.
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