I just wanted to bring this article to the attention of everyone. It gives just a short overview into the horrific treatment that civilian detainees in Iraq by Iraqi soldiers and police, as well as including similarly brutal examples from British and US military, who engage in abuse, rape, torture and murder or 'lethal force'. This is just another example of how badly the human race are capable of treating each other. It was a while ago now that videos and pictures of similar abuse at the hands of the US military in the Abu Ghraib prison first came to media attention (2004). It was striking to see that not only were people sent to 'civilize' the middle east as some claim can not only engage in such abhorrent behaviour but that someone could stand and watch it while documenting it onto digital video without doing anything about it.
That similar stories of abuse are still hitting headlines is very disturbing. Perhaps most disturbing is that nothing is being done to investigate and deal with such incidents by the relevant authorities and the insistence that there are no records of civilian casualties while logs indicate over 66,000 non-combatant deaths! The documents detailing these occurrences only came to public light through internet leaks, it makes me question what other things are going on out there that we may not hear about for several years to come, if at all.
I feel this resonates with what we've been looking into regarding abuse from those in power; in these incidents it comes from both the police and military ('protectors of the people') who engage in such horrific acts and those in authority who just sit and fail to stop such incidents occurring when they may have the power to do something about it.
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