Actualité - Bush: one truth and a thousand lies
Franc-Parler présente cet article de Granma International qui raconte l'histoire d'un jeune turc torturé par les États-Unis. Ce cas s'ajoute à la lourde liste étatsunienne. Malgré les aveux de Bush sur la présence de prisons secrètes, chose que tout le monde savait, la torture et l'humiliation de milliers de personnes se poursuit. Certains d'entre eux n'auront jamais l'occasion de prouver leur innocence puisqu'ils ont succombé aux sévices du gouvernement américain. Restons unis et, ensemble, faisons un pas audacieux à la défense des droits de tous!
Murat Kurnaz, a young Turkish resident, returned to Germany with his hands and feet in shackles and his eyes blindfolded. It was impossible for him to attend the first press conference called by his lawyers because he was still under the effects of the trauma inflicted by the five years he spent in a cage, tortured and subjected to powerful lights on a permanent basis. Kurnaz was not yet 19 years old when he was taken prisoner in Pakistan and subjected to violent abuse in Afghanistan. Then he was taken to Guantánamo, where the abuse continued.
For years, they knew that he was not a Taliban and had no links to Al Qaeda, but he was still not released; instead, he was kept under the same abnormal prison conditions as the rest of the inmates, according to Bernhard Docke, his attorney, who told reporters that “the Americans are incorrigible, they haven’t learned anything. He returned home in chains, humiliated and disgraced until the last moment,” in spite of the fact that at no time could they prove that he had even the slightest connection to terrorism. The lawyer also said that “the case of Murat Kurnaz is a scandal, but the biggest scandal is Guantánamo itself.”
A few days after this event, George W. Bush publicly admitted something that the entire planet knows: the United States has secret prisons in other countries and has transferred to them thousands of people whom he claims are suspected of having some type of link to terrorism.
What is tragic about all this, no matter how they justify it, is that the majority of those held were innocent. Some will never be able to claim their innocence, because they died under those shadowy circumstances.
The secret flights and prisons were revealed by U.S. newspapers, but given that the issue involves other nations, there was a need for further investigations that have confirmed the accusations were not unfounded. Those perverse transfers began in 2001, with prisoners, deprived from the start of all of their rights, being taken to places where violent interrogation methods were used.
Despite the evidence presented by international agencies and European commissions that investigated the matter, Bush is still denying that torture took place. Well, perhaps the word has another meaning for him. Or perhaps he thinks that torturing a human being is normal.
After the graphic images of Abu Ghraib, to deny that prisoners were tortured is to tell lies that are too evident and great for anyone to swallow. But there is more testimony, including from Iraqi children, arrested for unfounded reasons and taken to prisons where some were raped by soldiers and others had dogs set on them, while still others were subjected to electric shocks. If that was done to minors, in complete violation of international law, one would expect that adults have suffered a worse fate. It was no surprise when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the military courts created for the U.S. naval base — on usurped Cuban territory — were illegal.
There are many cases documented by international agencies on this issue. That is why Bush’s insistent and cynical lies stand out, whether in his justifications for the invasion of Iraq on pretexts that have proven to be false, or brutal abuse on the justification of a crusade against evil.
(Granma International - Elsa Claro)
Murat Kurnaz, a young Turkish resident, returned to Germany with his hands and feet in shackles and his eyes blindfolded. It was impossible for him to attend the first press conference called by his lawyers because he was still under the effects of the trauma inflicted by the five years he spent in a cage, tortured and subjected to powerful lights on a permanent basis. Kurnaz was not yet 19 years old when he was taken prisoner in Pakistan and subjected to violent abuse in Afghanistan. Then he was taken to Guantánamo, where the abuse continued.
For years, they knew that he was not a Taliban and had no links to Al Qaeda, but he was still not released; instead, he was kept under the same abnormal prison conditions as the rest of the inmates, according to Bernhard Docke, his attorney, who told reporters that “the Americans are incorrigible, they haven’t learned anything. He returned home in chains, humiliated and disgraced until the last moment,” in spite of the fact that at no time could they prove that he had even the slightest connection to terrorism. The lawyer also said that “the case of Murat Kurnaz is a scandal, but the biggest scandal is Guantánamo itself.”
A few days after this event, George W. Bush publicly admitted something that the entire planet knows: the United States has secret prisons in other countries and has transferred to them thousands of people whom he claims are suspected of having some type of link to terrorism.
What is tragic about all this, no matter how they justify it, is that the majority of those held were innocent. Some will never be able to claim their innocence, because they died under those shadowy circumstances.
The secret flights and prisons were revealed by U.S. newspapers, but given that the issue involves other nations, there was a need for further investigations that have confirmed the accusations were not unfounded. Those perverse transfers began in 2001, with prisoners, deprived from the start of all of their rights, being taken to places where violent interrogation methods were used.
Despite the evidence presented by international agencies and European commissions that investigated the matter, Bush is still denying that torture took place. Well, perhaps the word has another meaning for him. Or perhaps he thinks that torturing a human being is normal.
After the graphic images of Abu Ghraib, to deny that prisoners were tortured is to tell lies that are too evident and great for anyone to swallow. But there is more testimony, including from Iraqi children, arrested for unfounded reasons and taken to prisons where some were raped by soldiers and others had dogs set on them, while still others were subjected to electric shocks. If that was done to minors, in complete violation of international law, one would expect that adults have suffered a worse fate. It was no surprise when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the military courts created for the U.S. naval base — on usurped Cuban territory — were illegal.
There are many cases documented by international agencies on this issue. That is why Bush’s insistent and cynical lies stand out, whether in his justifications for the invasion of Iraq on pretexts that have proven to be false, or brutal abuse on the justification of a crusade against evil.
(Granma International - Elsa Claro)
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