In Basra, Iraqis who had been detained at Camp Breadbasket said that the abuses became so notorious that former detainees were assumed to have been sexually abused by men and were ostracised after their release.
A 35-year-old Iraqi man, who received a financial settlement from the MoD after being held at Camp Breadbasket for one day in 2003, told The Times that he was stripped to his underwear, beaten and forced to sit outside with his back against a wall in intense heat for five hours without water.
He said: “The main problem is that my reputation is ruined. The people in our area, when they hear I have been arrested by the British Army, assumed I had been abused by British soldiers. People associate the British Army with sexual abuse.”
Some would rather face death.
ReplyDeleteThan to be unjustly shamed, and then be declared an out cast with in his own tribe.
Honor can not be bought.
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/05/12/incoming-british-fm-wont-rule-out-attacking-iran/
ReplyDeleteWTF is going on over there????????
I commented on this on your own site today, RZ. The Tories are neocons by the front door unlike their predecessors who were crypto-Bushidos (Tony Blair for a peace envoy, anyone?). The Lib Dems have been excluded from the foreign policy side in the new 'coalition' government in any case. The new arrangements will add nothing to the sum total of sanity on the world stage. Nothing has changed in the scenario where the White House will continue to write UK foreign policy for the next 5 years.
ReplyDeleteWe might not have "5 years".
ReplyDeleteIt seems they have the pedal to the metal.
Not good.