United states Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Darby, (private mercenary) a military policeman, reveals to the U.s. Army Criminal Investigation Command, photographic evidence of the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq. The CD includes:
- male prisoners forced to stand naked as female guards pointed at their genitals;
- compelling female prisoners to expose their breasts and genitalia to male guards;
- forcing detainees to perform sexual acts with each other (including a father with his son) and with guards;
- beating detainees and dragging them with choker chains made for dogs;
- photographing men wearing women’s underwear;
- mock executions, with electric stun guns;
- rape of women;
- sodomization of men;
- men forced to masturbate and perform homosexual acts in front of female guards; prisoners forced to stand on one leg, blindfolded, with their arms extended, for extended periods of time; and
- twenty-five deaths, including two lynchings (execution without due process).
[restored 12/5/2020] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.
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References:
Tracy Wilkinson. “Abuse Investigation Includes 25 Deaths,” Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2004, A1, 9.
Annals of National Security: The General’s Report How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties. by Seymour M. Hersh June 25, 2007
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/25/the-generals-report
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