US Holding Children in Prison Camps as POW's

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[Zepps_News] American Gulags holding children as young as 8:

Jimmy Carter

 

 

 

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/17/75558/359

 

17 Dec 2005 By Tonyahky

 

US Holding Children in Prison Camps as POW's

 

Today, I started reading former President Jimmy Carter's

new book, " Our Endangered Values " . In it, he revealed

something that is absolutely horrifying--the US is holding

children as young as 8 years of age who have been captured

in Afghanistan and Iraq in prison camps--namely, the one

in Guantanamo. Worse yet, Donald Rumsfeld knew about it.

Read a short excerpt below :

 

" After visiting six of the twenty-five or so US prisons, the

International Committee of the Red Cross reported registering

107 detainess under eighteen, some as young as eight years old.

 

The Journalist Seymour Hersh reported in May 2005 that

Defense Secretaary Donald Rumsfeld had recieve a report

that there were " 800-900 Pakistani boys age 13-15 in

custody. "

 

The International Red Cross, Amnesty International, and

thePentagon have gathered substantial testimony of torture

of children ( emphasis mine), confirmed by soldiers who

witnessed or participated in the abuse. In addition

to personal testimony from children about physical and

mental mistreatment, a report from Brigadier General

Janis Karpinski, formerly in charge of Abu Ghraib,

described a visit to an eleven year old detainee in

the cell block that housed high risk prisoners. The

general recalled that the child was weeping, and " he

told me he was almost twelve, " and that " he really

wanted to see his mother, could he please call his

mother. " Children like this eleven year old have been

denied the right to see their parents, a lawyer, or

anyone else, and were not told why they were detained.

 

A Pentagon spokesman told Mr. Hersh that " age is not

a determining factor in detention. "

 

This is an absolute outrage. How could any normal, sane

person ever, ever in their lives even think about torturing

a child ? That our own military could engage in such acts

of evil, sadistic brutality -- AGAINST CHILDREN -- is

almost too horrible to even think about.

 

Every single sick SOB who had a part in this needs

to be sent to prison for the rest of their lives, including

Rumsfeld.

 

Reports like this help to illustrate why torture is wrong --

the kind of people who will actually do it are the lowest,

sickest breed of human beings -- the kind who have no moral

qualms about inflicting abuse on anyone -- regardless of age,

or any other factor.

 

I also published the above report on my little blog, Rebellious

Peasant (1).

 

I think the general public needs to find out about this, and

I hope people reading this will spread the word. We cannot

tolerate behavior like this from the people who are supposed

to be protecting our country.

 

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/17/75558/359

 

(1) http://www.rebelpeasant.blogspot.com

 

 

 

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