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The U.S. Military Doctors Were Complicit in Torture in Iraq
U.S. military doctors were complicit in the torture suffered by Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison and systematically ignored professional ethics, as reported yesterday by the British journal The Lancet.
The publication includes an article prepared by Dr. Steven Miles American, which claims that this attitude has been the norm of military medical service in Afghanistan, Iraq and the prison of Guantanamo Bay.
“Government documents show that military medical system failed to protect the U.S. human rights of detainees, sometimes collaborated with interrogations and practiced with the guards who committed abuses, and no reported injuries or deaths caused by beatings” he says. Miles, a professor at the University of Minnesota, believes that there was a “widespread failure” in meeting the duty to respect the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war and that this had “an adverse effect” on the situation of prisoners. Read the rest of this entry »
U.S. Military Doctors in Iraq Collaborated with Torture
U.S. military doctors in Iraq collaborated with interrogators in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, reports a study.
In a scathing condemnation of the behavior of doctors, nurses and para-military, the American expert on ethical conduct, Steven Miles, called for reforming the rules of military medicine and to investigate the role of doctors in torture.
The article was published in the Lancet medical journal. The U.S. military was studying the article on Thursday, but gave no immediate response.
Photographs of prisoners subjected to abuse and humiliation at the hands of U.S. troops have caused great scandal to national and international level. Although the conduct of the troops has been under intense scrutiny, the role played by medical personnel during the torture he has received relatively scant attention. Read the rest of this entry »