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.
The professor cited specific cases that occurred in Abu Ghraib prison who raised the alarm after the publication of photos in which U.S. soldiers torturing prisoners sporting, sparking a heated controversy throughout the world. A prisoner with a broken leg asked a doctor to use his crutch, but what we got was that he hit the tip while ordering him to renounce the Islamic faith.
Another, according to Miles-called doctors who detain a badly damaged shoulder and found that the guards so that they hung bear all the weight on that body part. According to the report in The Lancet, the medical system collaborated to design and conduct interrogations that were mentally and physically painful and is known for at least one doctor and a psychiatrist who is actively involved in Abu Ghraib.
When the inmates were fainting as a result of torture, the doctors retrieved, so that the interrogation could continue. There is evidence of two cases in which military doctors were actively involved in physical and mental abuse and cited the case of a doctor who allowed a guardian without medical training to sew up the wound a tortured. Also deliberately, doctors failed in their duty to report disease.