The US may have committed war crimes of torture, cruel
treatment and rape, when it interrogated dozens of people in
Afghanistan between 2003 and 2004, the International Criminal Court’s
chief prosecutor says.
The International Criminal Court's preliminary probe
into the activities of the US armed forces and the CIA in Afghanistan
between 2003 and 2004 shows there to be a “reasonable basis to
believe that, in the course of interrogating these detainees […]
members of the US armed forces and the US Central Intelligence Agency
resorted to techniques amounting to the commission of the war crimes
of torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, and
rape,” Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said, as cited by AFP.
She discovered that most of the alleged abuses took
place between 2003 and 2004, but did not cease in the following
years. She also pointed out that the abuses appear to have been
“approved interrogation techniques,” utilized deliberately
in “an attempt to extract ‘actionable intelligence’ from
detainees,” as the report states.
“These alleged crimes were not the abuses of a few
isolated individuals.”
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