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Friday, April 28, 2006

The moral high ground

Lest you've begun to forget, Amnesty International has given a report to the UN Committee Against Torture, accusing the US of continuing to encourage the torture of its detainees. Among the findings:

As of now, the U.S. has yet to prosecute a single official, military officer or private contractor for "torture" or "war crimes" related to its occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, or the "war on terror."

"The heaviest sentence imposed on anyone to date for a torture-related death while in U.S. custody is five months," notes Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive Director for Amnesty International USA. "[That's] the same sentence that you might receive in the U.S. for stealing a bicycle."

The five month sentence resulted from the death of a 22-year-old taxi-driver, who had been hooded and chained to a ceiling, then kicked and beaten until dead.


Doesn't it just make you proud to be an American?

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