Red Cross finds detainee abuse in Guantánamo

Anthony Butcher · 30-11-2004, 03:29 AM

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/2ca83ce6-42...00e2511c8.html

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The International Committee of the Red Cross has charged in confidential reports to the United States government that the American military has intentionally used psychological and sometimes physical coercion “tantamount to torture” on prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The finding that the handling of prisoners detained and interrogated at Guantánamo amounted to torture came after a visit by a Red Cross inspection team that spent most of last June in Guantánamo.

The team of humanitarian workers, which included experienced medical personnel, also asserted that some doctors and other medical workers at Guantánamo were participating in planning for interrogations, in what the report called “a flagrant violation of medical ethics.”

Tom Wilde · 02-12-2004, 10:05 PM

The International Committee of the Red Cross is not just some pressure group. They always try to be politically impartial and they never use inflamatory language. So if they say "tantamount to torture", I think they really MEAN tantamount to torture.

Tom Wilde · 02-12-2004, 10:07 PM

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The team of humanitarian workers, which included experienced medical personnel, also asserted that some doctors and other medical workers at Guantánamo were participating in planning for interrogations, in what the report called “a flagrant violation of medical ethics.”

Presumably the doctors involved belong to the usual medical professional bodies in the US. I think those professional bodies should now urgently investigate the actions of their members working at Guantánamo Bay.

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02-12-2004, 10:05 PM	#2 (permalink)
Tom Wilde Moderator Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: London. Posts: 2,789	The International Committee of the Red Cross is not just some pressure group. They always try to be politically impartial and they never use inflamatory language. So if they say "tantamount to torture", I think they really MEAN tantamount to torture.