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Democrats of the American Senate Intelligence committee have released a report showing the gruesome ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ the CIA dabbles in to get a confession from suspects.
The report, aptly dubbed ‘#TortureReprt’ on social media has created widespread outrage and partisan condemnation.
According to Bloomberg, the report states that at least one detainee died (probably by freezing) in an unheated cell. Another tried to chew off his arm from the elbow, and even tried to cut several veins in his arms and legs.
Other torture victims suffered hallucinations, paranoia and other forms of psychosis.
The report ended by saying the CIA’s methods were largely ineffective at gaining the information after all.
Below is an excerpt:
CIA operatives subjected at least five detainees to what they called “rectal rehydration and feeding”, a medical practice applied with extreme rarity and known more colloquially as a nutrient enema,according to a Senate intelligence committee report released Tuesday.
The CIA forced the nutrient enemas on two detainees who attempted hunger strikes, a third who “partially refus[ed] liquids”, a fourth “without a determination of medical need”, and a fifth whose case details are not divulged.
Agency operatives had explicitly considered other methods of force-feeding, the report shows, but opted to subject detainees to rectal infusions at least in part because its officers considered them “a means of behavior control”. One medical officer wrote that “[w]hile IV infusion is safe and effective, we were impressed with the ancillary effectiveness of rectal of ending the water refusal.”
According to the report, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was placed “in a forward-facing position … with head lower than torso”, at which point the enema began. An officer described the procedure as “regarding the rectal tube, if you place it and open up the IV tubing, the flow will self regulate, sloshing up the large intestines … [what] I infer is that you get a tube up as you can, then open the IV wide. No need to squeeze the bag – let gravity do the work.” An officer also wrote: “We used the largest Ewal [sic] tube we had”.
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Source: #Guardian
It will be recalled that America refused to give Nigeria weapons to aid the country's fight against Boko Haram, citing human rights abuse as its reason.
The report, aptly dubbed ‘#TortureReprt’ on social media has created widespread outrage and partisan condemnation.
According to Bloomberg, the report states that at least one detainee died (probably by freezing) in an unheated cell. Another tried to chew off his arm from the elbow, and even tried to cut several veins in his arms and legs.
Other torture victims suffered hallucinations, paranoia and other forms of psychosis.
The report ended by saying the CIA’s methods were largely ineffective at gaining the information after all.
Below is an excerpt:
CIA operatives subjected at least five detainees to what they called “rectal rehydration and feeding”, a medical practice applied with extreme rarity and known more colloquially as a nutrient enema,according to a Senate intelligence committee report released Tuesday.
The CIA forced the nutrient enemas on two detainees who attempted hunger strikes, a third who “partially refus[ed] liquids”, a fourth “without a determination of medical need”, and a fifth whose case details are not divulged.
Agency operatives had explicitly considered other methods of force-feeding, the report shows, but opted to subject detainees to rectal infusions at least in part because its officers considered them “a means of behavior control”. One medical officer wrote that “[w]hile IV infusion is safe and effective, we were impressed with the ancillary effectiveness of rectal of ending the water refusal.”
According to the report, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was placed “in a forward-facing position … with head lower than torso”, at which point the enema began. An officer described the procedure as “regarding the rectal tube, if you place it and open up the IV tubing, the flow will self regulate, sloshing up the large intestines … [what] I infer is that you get a tube up as you can, then open the IV wide. No need to squeeze the bag – let gravity do the work.” An officer also wrote: “We used the largest Ewal [sic] tube we had”.
Click here to read more
Source: #Guardian
It will be recalled that America refused to give Nigeria weapons to aid the country's fight against Boko Haram, citing human rights abuse as its reason.
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