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"maff" |
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24 Jan 2005 09:05:38 AM |
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OT: The lesson is we can all be subhuman |
The lesson is we can all be subhuman
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1396964,00.html
Why the latest reports of prisoner abuse in Iraq shouldn't surprise us
Peter Preston
Monday January 24, 2005
The Guardian
The inquiry evidence is clear enough. There was totally unacceptable
violence: "whipping on the soles of the feet, burning with lighted
cigarettes". Victims had "leather thongs tied round their necks and
were dragged along the ground". Perhaps 170 more prisoners were
involved: at least 32 emerged badly injured.
Another case for concern of the kind that besets the MoD in increasing
and worrying numbers if weekend reports speak true? No: actually this
is the detritus of Northern Tanganyika 1953, when young district
officer Brian Hayward and 21 men were dispatched to "screen" any
wandering Kikuyu who might have crossed colonial borders and brought
the infection of Mau Mau with them.
Peter Preston
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/49bfac2dff24e5aa
Mau Mau
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/b689ab076ba2a470
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