American Doctors, Medical Staff Committed Sexual Abuse and Torture of Gitmo Prisoners

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(NaturalNews) Specialist Brandon Neely, a member of the U.S. Army, witnessed horrifying events at Guantanamo Bay: Beatings, sexual abuse, prisoner humiliation, forced medication, torture... and many of these acts were carried out by American doctors and medical personnel.

In December of 2008, Spc. Brandon Neely found the courage to share his story with the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA). His interview, which was recorded and transcribed, is now posted in full at the University of California Davis website (http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/proj...). (Note, this link does NOT work under Firefox browsers, for some unexplained reason. It works under IE and Chrome.)

What follows are excerpts from that interview, focusing specifically on abuses of Gitmo prisoners by doctors and other medical personnel. Be warned: Some of these descriptions are quite graphic and disturbing.

It is notable that this information only came out after the removal of the Bush Administration from Washington. And the fact that these events were taking place at all, being led by American medical professionals, says a lot about the utter lack of ethics in both the U.S. Army and the medical profession as a whole. If a doctor could engage in the sexual abuse and torture of another human being at Gitmo, what does that say about the lack of ethical training for doctors in general? How could a professional member of an industry that claims to "do no harm" engage in the outright torture and abuse of a patient placed under his care?

That these events took place while about half of all Americans continued to support Bush and Guantanamo Bay also says something else about the American people: Those who supported Gitmo were no different than the Nazi party members who claimed they didn't know the concentration camps were actually killing anyone. This cultural denial of the Nazi Germany era was eerily reflected in America's "War on Terror" and in television shows like 24, which sensationalize and justify the routine torture of human beings.

When I was writing about Guantanamo Bay in 2006 - 2008, I was heavily criticized by Bush defenders who insisted the U.S. never tortured anyone. All those Gitmo prisoners were really just "on vacation" at a holiday resort, they said! Free room and board, too! The ability of war fanatics to justify the abuse and torture of fellow human beings has never ceased to astonish me. I continue to believe that Bush Administration officials are guilty of war crimes and should be investigated, prosecuted and punished for their role in approving the use of such torture techniques in direct violation of the Geneva Convention.

With its actions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, America can no longer claim any "moral high ground" on international conflicts. (Actually, the same has been true since the Vietnam War, but that's a different story...) As this testimony reveals, America is really a war mongering, imperialist nation full of violent military zealots who think nothing of human rights or international law. You see this bullying attitude in the military AND in law enforcement, too, where police brutality against unarmed citizens is routine in many cities.

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