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Human Rights Watch heeft bekend gemaakt: 'U.S. Operated Secret ‘Dark Prison’ in Kabul. Accounts from detainees at Guantánamo reveal that the United States as recently as last year operated a secret prison in Afghanistan where detainees were subjected to torture and other mistreatment, Human Rights Watch said today. Eight detainees now held at Guantánamo described to their attorneys how they were held at a facility near Kabul at various times between 2002 and 2004. The detainees, who called the facility the “dark prison” or “prison of darkness,” said they were chained to walls, deprived of food and drinking water, and kept in total darkness with loud rap, heavy metal music, or other sounds blared for weeks at a time. The detainees offer consistent accounts about the facility, saying that U.S. and Afghan guards were not in uniform and that U.S. interrogators did not wear military attire, which suggests that the prison may have been operated by personnel from the Central Intelligence Agency.' Zie voor het hele bericht: http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2005/12/19/afghan12319.htm
Dit lijkt me een niet te negeren bericht voor de Nederlandse regering. Als het kabinet de Nederlandse militairen nu niet terugtrekt uit Afghanistan dan is het direct medeverantwoordelijk voor de schendingen van de mensenrechten en van het oorlogsrecht en kan daarvoor vervolgd worden. Eens kijken hoe lang het duurt voordat dit doordringt in kringen rond dat Haagse pleintje. Niemand die met mij een strafklacht zou willen indienen tegen de Nederlandse regering? Mailt u me dan.