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And this is what "we" brought to Iraq?

Amnesty International has issued a Report condemning the Iraqis for their detention of some 30,000 people in jail. It's a devastating report. Of course, it gives rise to the question of whether this was the sort of regime the Coalition of the Willing had in mind when they invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam. Remember the words of George Bush that Iraq would be turned into a better place post Saddam. Mmmm!

AlJazeera reports:

"Amnesty International has said that tens of thousands of detainees are being held without trial in Iraqi prisons. In a new report, Amnesty said the prisoners face violent and psychological abuse, as well as other forms of mistreatment.

Amnesty said on Monday it believes that around 30,000 people are held in Iraqi jails, noting the case of several who died in custody, while cataloguing physical and psychological abuses against many others.

Last month’s handover of prisoners following the so-called 'end of US combat operations' have alarmed the The London-based human rights watchdog.

"Iraq's security forces have been responsible for systematically violating detainees' rights and they have been permitted to do so with impunity," said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty's director for the Middle East and North Africa.

“Yet, the US authorities, whose own record on detainees' rights has been so poor, have now handed over thousands of people detained by US forces to face this catalogue of illegality, violence and abuse, abdicating any responsibility for their human rights," he added.

Among other things, the Amnesty report documents thousands of arbitrary detentions and beatings of detainees to obtain forced confessions."

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