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Two death certificates, one death: Did U.S. med staff cover-up abuse?
RAW STORY
Dr. Steven Miles, aMinnesota bioethicist who has been investigating alleged human rights abuses by U.S. military medical staff has found a prisoner with two death certificates, according to the (registration-restricted) Minnesota Star-Tribune.
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The two death certificates, dated 17 months apart, both document the death of a 22-year-old taxi driver who was arrested by Afghan militiamen in December 2002. He was turned over to a U.S. detention center in Bagram, where he apparently died under interrogation a week later.
Both classify Dilawar's death as a homicide. But in one death certificate, he is a Caucasian of unspecified age and religion. In the other, he is a Muslim of "approximately 35 years," who was "found unresponsive in his cell while in custody."
Miles believes the twin death certificates -- one of them clearly altered -- are evidence of a cover-up. Pentagon officials say they've investigated Dilawar's death, along with at least two dozen other suspected criminal homicides, and have charged seven people.
A Defense Department spokesman said Friday that they are looking into the discrepancy of the two death certificates. "It's possible one was a report done out in the field, and the other was a final report based on the final autopsy," said Perry Bishop, a Health Affairs spokesman at the Pentagon.
Miles, however, contends that both death certificates bear signatures indicating a doctor's final approval. Neither is marked as preliminary, nor as pending an investigation.
The Pentagon has acknowledged that in a few cases, including Dilawar's, there had been false reports of natural deaths involving detainees. In March, Vice Admiral Albert Church found that Dilawar's case was one of three in which medical personnel may have attempted to misrepresent the circumstances of death.
Two death certificates, one death: Did U.S. med staff cover-up abuse?
RAW STORY
Dr. Steven Miles, aMinnesota bioethicist who has been investigating alleged human rights abuses by U.S. military medical staff has found a prisoner with two death certificates, according to the (registration-restricted) Minnesota Star-Tribune.
snip..
The two death certificates, dated 17 months apart, both document the death of a 22-year-old taxi driver who was arrested by Afghan militiamen in December 2002. He was turned over to a U.S. detention center in Bagram, where he apparently died under interrogation a week later.
Both classify Dilawar's death as a homicide. But in one death certificate, he is a Caucasian of unspecified age and religion. In the other, he is a Muslim of "approximately 35 years," who was "found unresponsive in his cell while in custody."
Miles believes the twin death certificates -- one of them clearly altered -- are evidence of a cover-up. Pentagon officials say they've investigated Dilawar's death, along with at least two dozen other suspected criminal homicides, and have charged seven people.
A Defense Department spokesman said Friday that they are looking into the discrepancy of the two death certificates. "It's possible one was a report done out in the field, and the other was a final report based on the final autopsy," said Perry Bishop, a Health Affairs spokesman at the Pentagon.
Miles, however, contends that both death certificates bear signatures indicating a doctor's final approval. Neither is marked as preliminary, nor as pending an investigation.
The Pentagon has acknowledged that in a few cases, including Dilawar's, there had been false reports of natural deaths involving detainees. In March, Vice Admiral Albert Church found that Dilawar's case was one of three in which medical personnel may have attempted to misrepresent the circumstances of death.
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