the behavior of British soldiers prominent systemic failures and ignorance of the law on prisoners
British troops handed over to a "terrible incident of serious violence, free of charge" in a number of civilian Iraqi detainees that lead to the death of hotel worker, 26, in Basra, Baha Mousa, and abuse nine other people.
Mousa, father of two, was "violent and cowardly attack abused by British soldiers whose job was to protect and treat him humanely."
Sir William Gage, a judge who presided over the Court of Appeal withdrew from two-year research, paints a devastating portrait of military culture in general and in particular a group of soldiers from 1st Battalion Regiment Lancashire Queen.
The report describes the House of Commons by Liam Fox, Secretary of Defense, as "a difficult and painful to read." Fox also described as "sober, precise and detailed." He added "Mostly I think it's fair and balanced."
Mousa died September 15, 2003, after spending 36 hours in detention, while he and his fellow detainees were punched, insulted and humiliated. An autopsy later determined he had suffered 93 external injuries.
"For most of the period until the death of Baha Mousa ... detainees were handcuffed, hooded and in stress positions in extreme heat and poor conditions of some, "says the report.
Among the indignities imposed on the detainees were stripped of toilets in the head, beaten with metal bars, verbal abuse, forced to "dance like Michael Jackson" and poured lighter fluid on on them.
An officer who visited the detention center, told investigators that detainees appeared to have been "in a car accident." After the death of Mousa, prisoners who survived were subjected to new attacks. "trophy photos" is said to have been taken from them is the same.
The report is full of passages criticizing the officers and soldiers guilty. Gage refers to a "loss of discipline and lack of moral courage." Behind it was the ignorance of what was permitted by law, let alone morally, in the treatment of detainees.
- The report reveals how through the army and the Ministry of Defence, from general to specific most young people, military interrogators to the army of lawyers, not ignorance voluntary or involuntary, a ban on five techniques, including hoods, stress positions and sleep deprivation, introduced by the Heath government in 1972 after its use in Northern Ireland was condemned by the European Court of Human of Man.
- The ban was never mentioned in officer training at Sandhurst, said Gage. Even after the death of Mousa is an order by General Robin Brims Division, commander of British troops in southern Iraq, recalling the prohibition of troops does not properly distributed in the chain of command. Techniques continued while the Ministry of Defence admitted they were "prohibited and illegal war because of the Geneva Convention," the report said.
are punished to the Ministry of Defence for its "responsibility" and "systemic" lack of clear and consistent guidelines on how to treat prisoners or detainees. At the time of the invasion of Iraq, "there is no ministry of defense doctrine adapted to the interrogation of prisoners of war that was generally available," says the report. It also reveals that "1QLR standing orders for medical care to civilian detainees."
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