 Seymour Hersh |
In a report published in the British newspaper, The Independent, the paper reports that Seymour Hersh — whose essay on the torture of Iraqi prisoners appeared in New Yorker magazine in May — told a meeting (RealPlayer required) of the American Civil Liberties Union of the continued abuse and torture of teen male Iraqi prisoners. Hersh said …
“The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling, and the worst part is the soundtrack, of the boys shrieking. And this is your government at war.”
Hersh accused the U.S. administration, President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney of complicity in covering up what he called ‘war crimes’. A full transcript of the Hersh speech is available here.
An Associated Press story reports that two young male detainees were bound naked, and were raped in front of 30 other detainees. Further gross sexual abuse and humiliation is sited in the AP story.
The stories above follow on the heels of a May 22nd published report in The Guardian, detailing the rape of a teen Iraqi boy by an army translator.
To date, the U.S. administration has not responded to any of the stories alleging rape of young male prisoners at Abu Ghraib, nor have such stories appeared in newspapers or magazines published in the United States.
