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[title] => U.S. CONDEMNED IN AFGHANISTAN
[time] => 2004-03-08 05:19:56
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[bodytext] => O/ US condemned for Afghan 'abuses' BBC - Monday, 8 March, 2004, 02:40 GMT The actions of US military and intelligence units in Afghanistan have been heavily criticised in a new report by an international human rights group. 'US-based Human Rights Watch accuses US personnel of using excessive force, carrying out arbitrary detentions and mistreating people in custody. But the human rights body says many US actions violate international law. The report is damming. Entitled Enduring Freedom - Abuses by US Forces in Afghanistan, it focuses on the American system of detaining people at bases across the country, which it describes as 'almost entirely outside the rule of law'. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 1,000 Afghans and other nationals have been taken into custody since 2002. These arrests have often been accompanied by excessive or indiscriminate force, it says, leading to death and injury to innocent civilians. Helicopter gunships have been used to fire on residential areas, when US troops were facing no opposition. Once in custody in places like Bagram airbase north of Kabul, mistreatment is common, the human rights group says - detainees are frequently subjected to sleep deprivation, extremes of temperature and in some cases beatings. Two people have died in US detention in Afghanistan, and both cases have been ruled as homicide. 'Double standards' The group points out that the US government has condemned as torture in other countries many of the methods its forces have allegedly employed in Afghanistan when interrogating detainees. Such behaviour, it concludes, sends a message that 'the US operates on a set of double standards', which also undermines support for its war on terror. O/ Don’t believe any lies The above IS the truth A brutal army regime Composed of your youth Soldiers who obey This illegal command Destroying all faith In Afghanistan Don’t believe the patriotic myth Or any of that hype Your government is corrupt And have a coward’s stripe This is the so-called freedom They bring to that land Freedom for troops to abuse and murder And blast civilians as they stand To go in all guns blazing On innocents unarmed To use torture and torment All trust in us is harmed An arrogant force From an arrogant state They say they love freedom But they bring only HATE O/ [comments] => 2 [counter] => 328 [topic] => 41 [informant] => steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => political )
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