Enduring Torture

Since the release of the Taguba Report on U.S. treatment of Iraqi prisoners of war (POWs) and detainees, the unlawful practices of torture and abuses continue at an increasing rate and brutality. Thanks to Western governments and media complicity in the crimes, the practices are becoming part of the West sacred "shared values".

A new report by the U.S-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) based on soldiers’ testimony, reveals that those troops were following orders on how to torture, and abuse Iraqi detainees and POWs. The report "differs from the previous accounts and lurid photographs the public has seen detailing prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib", said Tom Malinowski, Washington director of HRW. "A lot of people have heard about this before. But I don't think they have heard a West Point-educated officer who fought on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan say what happened was wrong, what happened was systemic, and was the result of leadership failures", he added. Iraqi prisoners were abused and tortured while they were blindfolded and handcuffed by U.S. soldiers.