Hans Rustad Også amerikanske militærleger deltok i mishandlingen av fanger i Abu Ghraib-fengselet, skriver professor Stephen Miles i det anerkjente fagbladet The Lancet.
«Confirmed or reliably reported abuses of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan include beatings, burns, shocks, bodily suspensions, asphyxia, threats against detainees and their relatives, sexual humiliation, isolation, prolonged hooding and shackling, and exposure to heat, cold and loud noise,» said Professor Miles.
He said there was evidence that some medics had played a part.
«Government documents show that the US military medical system failed to protect detainees’ human rights, sometimes collaborated with interrogators or abusive guards, and failed to properly report injuries or deaths caused by beatings,» he said.
«In one example, soldiers tied a beaten detainee at the top of his cell door and gagged him.
«The death certificate indicated that he died of ‘natural causes…during his sleep’. After news media coverage, the Pentagon revised the certificate to say that the death was a ‘homicide’.»
Professor Miles called for this and other incidents to be investigated.
Men det avviser Pentagon. De hevder at Miles mangler bevis, og at han bare har plukket stories fra massemediene.
Leder av Physicians for human rights sa til BBC at det må etableres kontrollordninger av utenforstående, for å hindre at slike ting skjer.
