Afghans ‘abused at secret prison’ at Bagram airbase
By Hilary Andersson | BBC News | April 15, 2010
Bagram – Afghan prisoners are being abused in a “secret jail” at Bagram airbase, according to nine witnesses whose stories the BBC has documented. The abuses are all said to have taken place since US President Barack Obama was elected, promising to end torture.
The US military has denied the existence of a secret detention site and promised to look into allegations.
Bagram was the site of a controversial jail holding hundreds of inmates, who have now been moved to another complex.
The old prison was notorious for allegations of prisoner torture and abuse. But witnesses told the BBC in interviews or written testimony that abuses continue in a hidden facility.
Sleep deprivation
“They call it the Black Hole,” said Sher Agha who spent six days in the facility last autumn.
“When they released us they told us we should not tell our stories to outsiders because that will harm us.”
Sher Agha and others we interviewed complained their cells were very cold.
“When I wanted to sleep and started shivering with cold I started reciting the holy Koran,” he said. But sleep, according to the prisoners interviewed, is deliberately prevented in this detention site.
“I could not sleep, nobody could sleep because there was a machine that was making noise,” said Mirwais, who said he was held in the secret jail for 24 days.
“There was a small camera in my cell, and if you were sleeping they’d come in and disturb you,” he added.
The prisoners, who were interviewed separately, all told very similar stories. Most of them said they had been beaten by American soldiers at the point of arrest before being taken to the prison.
Mirwais had half a row of teeth missing, which he said was from being struck with the butt of a gun by an American soldier.
No-one said they were visited by the International Committee of the Red Cross during their detention at the site, and they all said that their families did not know where they were.
In the small concrete cells, the prisoners said, a light was on all the time. They said they could not tell if it was night or day and described this as very disturbing.
Mirwais said he was made to dance to music by American soldiers every time he wanted to use the toilet.
The ex-prisoners said they were imprisoned at the secret jail before being taken to the main detention centre at the Bagram airbase, a new complex called The Detention Facility in Parwan. Bagram’s prisoners were moved to the Parwan complex from the old notorious Bagram prison site on the airbase earlier this year… Full article
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The U.S. is losing far more than just the war in Afghanistan and Iraq: it is definitely losing the respect of every single civilized person worldwide.
Israel is totally depending for survival upon the U.S., and the U.S. is a waning power. And any regime which is built on deceit and brutality is doomed, sooner or later.
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Shame on all those whom are committing such crimes against an innocent population in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
They dont hate us for our freedom,they hate us because we are occupying their land.
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one day, soon, these cowards will come home needing a job. the only place where they will be able to use their “enhanced abilities” is in the police force. security guards. because they will not be able to just “turn off” their newly acquired psychopathic tendencies. human nature.
and they will not be nice about doing their duties either.
for those of you who were all gung-ho about “getting them ragheads” , i hope you get to see the fruits of your deception. you deserve the best america has to offer. lol.
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Oh, you guys, you are so ‘naieve’ about what the plan is. The U.S.S.A. isn’t ever going to bring these brainwashed drugged out ROBOTS home anytime soon. It’s easier to let them die of attrition and pay out the G.I. life insurance check to the decedent’s relatives than to let them come home to NO JOB, whereupon they’d immediately start to feel pretty DISENFRANCHISED and want to join a militia (not that joining a MILITIA at this point is a BAD IDEA, which it is not, by the way!) and fight against the very assholes who sent them to die over there for six, seven and eight combat tours of duty between the Iraq fuckjob and the Afghan one.
So, don’t ever hold your breath waiting for this inbred jackass in the White House to bring them home, it ain’t going to happen anytime soon.
They’re all consigned to DEATH over there, whether it’s on this tour of duty, or their 57th. goddamned mission, or better yet, they can just suck on their gun and become another suicide statistic. Cheaper that way than to treat them for P.T.S.D. and all the other shit like drinking fecal matter infected KBR provided water and eating D.U. in their KBR cooked food all that time.
These guys are FUCKED! and so is the brain dead nation that tolerates sending them on ILLEGAL WARS BASED ON LIES!!!
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