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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  US probes claims of Indians being ill-treated in Iraq Tue May 04 2004 10:09:08 ET American officials in India said Tuesday they were looking into allegations that Indian civilians working for the US military in Iraq were being ill-treated by their employers. A US embassy spokesman in New Delhi said the allegations were being checked following an expression of concern by the Indian government over media reports Indians were being made to work like "slaves" in US military camps. "We take all reports of abuse seriously and all allegations of mistreatment are investigated. We are committed to treating all persons under coalition authority with dignity, respect and humanity," the spokesman told AFP. Reports published in leading national dailies on Tuesday quoted two Indian brothers, employed in American military camps in Iraq, as saying US troops abused them and made them work long hours with little food. "We were slaves in American kitchens. We barely got two hours of sleep," one of the brothers, Hameed, told the Hindustan Times paper in Kollam in southern Kerala state. His brother Shahjahan was quoted as saying, "Once I told the kitchen in-charge that as I was a devout Muslim I could not cook pork. I was beaten up with rifle butts." The two brothers, who were identified in the report by their first names only, were among 25 Indians recruited in August by private agencies in Kerala, the report said. They had been expecting to work in Kuwait but were transported across the border into Iraq, where they ended up in US military camps. Once they realised they had been duped, the brothers managed to leave, returning to India on April 28. Shahjahan said there were at least 70 other Indians in US camps in Iraq. END |
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