ICRC worried about detainees in secret jails

[dArKeR]

Geneva - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday voiced renewed concern about an unknown number of detainees rounded up in the United States' global war on terrorism and being held secretly in various countries.

Spokesperson Eros Bosisio said that the humanitarian agency had asked US authorities repeatedly for information on, and access to, such detainees, arrested in countries including Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past two years.

Accusations that US troops abused Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, triggered in part by a leaked ICRC report, caused an international outcry.

http://iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1085139721258B212&set_id=1

[struggle4progress]

1. Really important! eom

[gratuitous]

2. Secret jails, huh?

As I recall, people with something to hide are afraid of getting caught. Now, who said that? Think, think.

For the lurkers (and you know who you are): Is this your vision of America? Is this the land of the free and home of the brave, celebrated in song and story? Are you proud of a country that practices the midnight raid and the secret detention? Four hundred prisoners were set free earlier this week from Abu Ghraib. Four hundred! Their only crime appears to be that they were living under Saddam's regime when the U.S. decided to invade. How does locking up innocents comport with American ideals?

[tom_paine]

3. Yah. The Busheviks are NOTHING like the Nazis.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

[tom_paine]

4. It conforms with Imperial Amerikan values

And Busheviks will lick the boot of Totalitarianism and not give a shit whether Imperial Values have ANYTHING to do with American values.

You know, the ones that are dying out in the Bush Empire...

[Just Me]

5. Well, I can only be grateful that the ICRC is bringing it into the open.

I mean,...how long has this horrendous, unlawful, crime on humanity been going on? Too long. I realize that the ICRC had a policy of "confidentiality" in order to continue their work. But, I am sure as hell glad that they re-examined their policy under these circumstances where the leadership has basically adopted a position that "Geneva Convention need not apply."