U.N. Condemns Alleged Abuse of Afghans

[maddezmom]

KABUL, Afghanistan - The United Nations Sunday condemned as "utterly unacceptable" the alleged abuse of detainees at the main U.S. base in Afghanistan and called on the American military to allow an investigation by Afghan human rights officials.


The world body was responding to a New York Times article Friday reporting that poorly trained U.S. soldiers had repeatedly abused detainees. Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday called for tough punishment for the abusers, and for the United States to hand over all Afghans still in its custody.

The report cited a 2,000-page confidential file on the Army's criminal investigation into the deaths of two Afghans at the Bagram base north of the capital, Kabul, in December 2002.

"Such abuses are utterly unacceptable and an affront to everything the international community stands for," said Richard Provencher, spokesman for the United Nations in Afghanistan. "The gravity of these abuses calls for the punishment of all those involved in such inexcusable crimes."

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[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. What frightens me is the arrogance of the neocons in power at the moment..

They believe that history has set them up for the power grab of the millenia and divine right tells them not only to ignore this but punish the UN.

God, we have some scary bastards in DC.