War crimes closer to home
Published: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 1:00 a.m
Why is it that only foreigners are prosecuted for war crimes? It's certainly not because Americans don't do prisoner abuse.
An expert on detainee mistreatment, Deborah Pearlstein, testified recently before the House Judiciary Committee that, as of 2006, the U.S. government had documented 330 cases of detainee abuse at the hands of U.S. personnel, including 34 reported to be homicides. The witness testified that at least eight "were tortured to death."
The testimony received scant attention, at least in this country. Meanwhile, a great deal of attention was paid to the war-crime trial of Salim Hamdan at Guantanamo Bay. Hamdan, a Yemeni captured in Afghanistan, was a driver for Osama bin Laden. Waiting in the wings for war crimes prosecution are some 80 other Guantanamo detainees.
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Why is it that only foreigners are prosecuted for war crimes? It's certainly not because Americans don't do prisoner abuse.
An expert on detainee mistreatment, Deborah Pearlstein, testified recently before the House Judiciary Committee that, as of 2006, the U.S. government had documented 330 cases of detainee abuse at the hands of U.S. personnel, including 34 reported to be homicides. The witness testified that at least eight "were tortured to death."
The testimony received scant attention, at least in this country. Meanwhile, a great deal of attention was paid to the war-crime trial of Salim Hamdan at Guantanamo Bay. Hamdan, a Yemeni captured in Afghanistan, was a driver for Osama bin Laden. Waiting in the wings for war crimes prosecution are some 80 other Guantanamo detainees.
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