Abu Ghraib Accountability Gap
Yesterday’s verdict in the trial of Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan means that no one in the Army’s upper ranks will be imprisoned for the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2003. As HRF’s Hina Shamsi told the AP: ''None of the cases brought to date has given the systemic accounting the nation needs of what happened, why and how far up the chain of command responsibility lies.”
HRF’s Washington Director, Elisa Massimino also weighed in in today’s Washington Post:
HRF’s Washington Director, Elisa Massimino also weighed in in today’s Washington Post:
"This was the one that everyone was waiting for, and more than anything else,
the trial and verdict in this case demonstrates that there is an enormous
accountability gap left," Massimino said. "They have almost completely missed
the real point."
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posted by Sharon at
3:18 PM
1 Comments:
I must say that after seeing and hearing what went onat Abu Ghraib, and seeing that these untrained MP's managed 'somehow' to put these prisoners in 'KNOWN' and specific torture posistions, and yet this was overlooked and attributed to 'sadistic guards'? It is a clear insult to the American People, a clear insult to the Iraqi people, a clear insult to anyone that believes in Democracy. Despite the convictions, those who ordered this got off scot free. Who taught the guards to put those soldiers in those specific posistions? The internet? NO!! I am ashamed of my government, I am ashamed of my President, I am ashamed of our military leaders. I feel sorry for those guards who were convicted as clear patsy's to satify the press,and nothing more.... I am ashamed FOR our troops who must serve under this administration. This Country will never recover from this atrocity. And our President has no remorse.
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