tom_thinks
Sunday, August 22, 2004
More on Torture
The torture scandal goes deeper. Read this from the Toronto Star, via Common Dreams
"The medical system collaborated with designing and implementing psychologically and physically coercive interrogations," Miles writes in this week's edition of The Lancet, regarded as a leading international journal on medical ethics.The torture scandals seem to be out of the mainstream press lately, I guess their pre-occupied with all that swift boat garbage. Read Talking Points Memo for more on that."Army officials stated that a physician and a psychiatrist helped design, approve, and monitor interrogations at Abu Ghraib."
The report cites an example of a "medically monitored interrogation" where the prisoner "collapsed and was apparently unconscious after a beating.
"Medical staff revived the detainee and left, and the abuse continued," the report says, citing the sworn statement of an Abu Ghraib detainee.
In another instance, "a medic inserted a intravenous catheter into the corpse of a detainee who died under torture in order to create evidence that he was alive at the hospital," the report says, citing evidence from a military police officer.
A U.S. military spokesperson told the Associated Press the incidents recounted by Miles came primarily from the Pentagon's own investigation.
posted by Tom, 8/22/2004 06:53:00 PM
