Dear editor:
Male officers stripping and filming naked female prisoners,
might be acceptable by the moral standards of the United States,
but in Iraq the victims are likely to be viewed as damaged
goods.
Dear editor:
Male officers stripping and filming naked female prisoners, might be acceptable by the moral standards of the United States, but in Iraq the victims are likely to be viewed as damaged goods. In Europe the practice is thought to be barbaric.
Arresting females to leverage information from male suspects or their families, is something Saddam Hussein would have undertaken. Many of the filmed activities are identical to the abuses inflicted by BSA criminals in Bosnia in their rape camps.
The females who were a few yards away from the sexual abuse and torture exhibited in the photographs already released, were also obliged to live in a regime of blatant sexual terror. Females and children were raped, one of the rapes reportedly filmed.
America is now in dialogue with itself and the victims might be promised a bag of money so long as it is not described as “reparations” or any other expression which indicates the depraved nature of the atrocities.
Gregory Carlin, United Kingdom
Submitted Wednesday, May 12 to ed****@****ic.com
