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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  REPORT: COALITION 'ABUSED' IRAQI CHILDREN IN CUSTODY Sun Jul 04 2004 19:59:15 ET [Translated from New edition of Gemrnay's DER SPEIGEL] More than 100 children are after information of the international red cross in Iraqi prisons arrested, among them also in notorious Knast Abu Ghreib. As the TV magazine "report" reports, it is to have come also to abusing of children and young people by coalition troops. Mainz - "we registered this yearly between January and May altogether 107 children, during 19 attendance at six different detention places", the speaker of the international red cross (IKRK) said, Florian Westphal, in Geneva opposite the SWR magazine "report Mainz". It referred to the fact that this detention places were, which are controlled by coalition troops. The number of the children imprisoned held could be also more highly, so Westphal. In addition the TV magazine reported of references and testimonies, according to which US soldiers in Iraqi prisons abused also children and young people. Samuel Provance, an NCO stationed in the notorious torture prison Abu Ghreib, said, specialistspecialist specialists would have pressed 15 to 16 years an old girl in their cell. Military police intervened only, when it was already half undressed. Another time was driven a 16-Jaehriger with water ueberschuettet, by cold weather and beschmiert afterwards with mud. The child welfare organization of the United Nations (Unicef) confirms the capture of Iraqi children by foreign military, reported "report" with reference to an internal report of the organization. Literally be called it in the so far unpublished document from June 2004: "children, who in Basra and Kerbala had been arrested because of allegedly activities directed against crew powers, were transferred by routine according to reports into an internment mechanism in Umm Kasr. Concern is exciting the classification of these children as interned ones, there it indefinite safekeeping without contact with the family, expectation of a procedure or a process contained." The German section of the human right organization Amnesty international (AI) demanded the clearing-up of the reproaches and a statement of the US government. |
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