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Feb. 22nd, 2006
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SMH reports: Nearly 100 prisoners have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, the Human Rights First organisation said on BBC television. At least 98 deaths occurred, with at least 34 of them suspected or confirmed homicides -- deliberate or reckless killing -- according to the group of US lawyers who were to publish their report today. [This count does *not* include deaths due to fighting, mortar attacks or violence between detainees.] Their dossier claims that 11 more deaths are deemed suspicious and that between eight and 12 prisoners were tortured to death.
And back at home: A videotape shows guards brutally beating a boy at a military-style boot camp for juvenile delinquents in Panama City [Florida] not long before the teenager died, two lawmakers said Thursday. Edit: CNN reports the autopsy blamed his death on internal bleeding arising as a natural complication of sickle-cell anaemia. Me, I'm still inclined to wonder if 'brutal beating' and 'internal bleeding' could possibly be somehow connected.
And back at home: A videotape shows guards brutally beating a boy at a military-style boot camp for juvenile delinquents in Panama City [Florida] not long before the teenager died, two lawmakers said Thursday. Edit: CNN reports the autopsy blamed his death on internal bleeding arising as a natural complication of sickle-cell anaemia. Me, I'm still inclined to wonder if 'brutal beating' and 'internal bleeding' could possibly be somehow connected.