Thursday, May 06, 2004
A point from BBC News
BBC News just showed a snippet of a torture video filmed by Saddam Hussein's prison guards. It involved something like 20-30 guards beating a prisoner as he ran around the grounds trying to escape them. Torture, beatings, mysterious deaths and even sexual humiliation are common occurrences in prisons THROUGHOUT the middle east. Yet, you never hear ANYONE in the Arab world protesting about that.
What those American prison guards did was despicable. The difference, though, is that those guards are going to get in a LOT of trouble, and heads might even roll in high places in the US government. Americans seems geniunely humiliated by the fact that their own citizens did something like this. Nothing like that would EVER occur in an Arab regime that practiced torture as state policy.
BBC News just showed a snippet of a torture video filmed by Saddam Hussein's prison guards. It involved something like 20-30 guards beating a prisoner as he ran around the grounds trying to escape them. Torture, beatings, mysterious deaths and even sexual humiliation are common occurrences in prisons THROUGHOUT the middle east. Yet, you never hear ANYONE in the Arab world protesting about that.
What those American prison guards did was despicable. The difference, though, is that those guards are going to get in a LOT of trouble, and heads might even roll in high places in the US government. Americans seems geniunely humiliated by the fact that their own citizens did something like this. Nothing like that would EVER occur in an Arab regime that practiced torture as state policy.
