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Headlines : IraqFresh Allegations of Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Emerge
The Ministry of Defence told the BBC it had investigated 177 complaints against British troops. Most involved shootings when the Army said it returned fire after being attacked. A spokeswoman also said allegations could not be investigated unless they were reported. She said anyone with evidence should come forward so it could be looked into.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from ABC News Online
The fresh allegations fuelled suspicion that the Army was following a policy of “systematic abuse and torture” when dealing with Iraqi detainees.
Two brothers, Marhab and As’ad Zaaj-al-Saghir, alleged they were beaten with sticks and denied water and sleep after being arrested in Basra, southern Iraq, following the invasion.
One said a soldier urinated on his head.
BBC’s Newsnight said the accounts were similar to numerous other claims made in a confidential report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
“They lowered me down… while I was tied up, threw me on the floor and hit me with a stick,” Marhab Zaaj-al-Saghir told the program.
“You couldn’t draw breath afterwards and I lost consciousness.
“I thought they would throw water over us but he got his penis out and urinated on my head,” said Zaaj-al-Saghir, alleging that he and his brother were held in an internment camp.
“If I’d had a weapon I’d have killed myself.”
The brothers have not made any official complaint and their accounts are confused.
The only corroboration of what they say are forms issued a month later by the US Army, showing they were eventually released from a camp in Umm Qasr, southern Iraq, without charge.
Human rights lawyer Phil Shiner, who is acting…
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