Los 'papeles' del conflicto iraquí
Los crímenes de Irak se revelan al mundo
Wikileaks destapa 400.000 documentos del Ejército estadounidense sobre la guerra - Los papeles sacan a luz los abusos, los asesinatos y el encubrimiento de las torturas
WALTER OPPENHEIMER - Londres - 24/10/2010
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/crimenes/Irak/revelan/mundo/elpepuint/20101024elpepiint_1/Tes
The 'roles' of the Iraqi conflict Iraq's crimes are revealed to the world Wikileaks 400,000 documents uncovers U.S. military about the war - The papers bring to light the abuse, murder and concealment of torture
WALTER OPPENHEIMER - London - 24/10/2010
The documents, published despite the pressure the Pentagon to prevent it, allow to increase by 15,000 the number of civilians killed by the conflict. Iraq Body Count, an organization trying to assess the number of victims of the war on record, now believes that in Iraq killed at least 150,000 people, 80% of them civilians.
A girl was killed while playing in the streets of Basra. A detainee handcuffed him out into the street to run dead. Two suspects who were surrendering were fired from an Apache helicopter at the base because they thought they were still "legitimate target." Are just a few examples of the macabre story of the day to day on the war in Iraq that emerges from the records that led the U.S. troops on the ground. There are thousands of cards that tell them or abuses by Iraqi troops loyal to the Allies. Washington did not want us knowing, but Wikileaks has brought to light through the Internet world.
About 400,000 internal documents of the U.S. Army released yesterday by the website Wikileaks have exposed the systematic abuse, torture and extrajudicial executions committed during the Iraq war both the Allied troops and, above all, by the Iraqi Army with tolerance of U.S. troops. Hillary Clinton has said that the distribution of documents endangers the lives of soldiers.
The documents, published despite the pressure the Pentagon to prevent it, allow to increase by 15,000 the number of civilians killed by the conflict. Iraq Body Count, an organization trying to assess the number of victims of the war on record, now believes that in Iraq killed at least 150,000 people, 80% of them civilians.
Wikileaks released last July and more than 90,000 official documents about the war in Afghanistan. Yesterday filtration multiply that number by four and offers a chilling portrait of human rights abuses in the war in Iraq, which is "the intimate detail of this war from the perspective of the United States" in the words of Julian Assange , founder of Wikileaks, which defended London filtration wrapped by representatives of Iraq Body Count and several human rights defenders.
The documents are a total of 391,831 reports of "significant action" drawn up by U.S. troops in Iraq that describe executions and torture of detainees, often carried out by Iraqi Army soldiers. Professor John Sloboda of Iraq Body Count, said in a press conference in London that the deaths of these 15,000 people now disclosed by these documents "is not the product of major bombings, but small incidents that have killed a or two people each and have been occurring almost every day throughout the period of the war. " "This is premeditated murder, shooting at random from vehicles, executions, killings at checkpoints. These are small but incessant tragedies of this war that these documents reveal with unprecedented detail," he added.
The documents state that there have been 109,000 violent deaths in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, before the invasion began in March 2003 - and that among those dead were 66,081 civilians, 23,984 classified as "enemy", 15,196 are members of the security forces 3,771 are Iraqi and coalition troops. These figures seem to contradict earlier claims that the U.S. has never done a count of civilian deaths in the Iraq war.
"Now we are able to ensure that in total have been killed over 150,000 people since 2003, of which about 80% were civilians," Sloboda said. "The media had reported many of these deaths, including 35 that occurred on a given day in Baghdad. But these documents show that on that day those deaths occurred in 27 different locations and also reveal the details and circumstances of each incident and in many cases the identity of the victims, "he said. "Day by day and secretly, the U.S. soldiers in Iraq have been writing reports on violent deaths that have resulted, they have witnessed or have obtained information. Dates, times, exact location in which they occurred, names, ages, occupations of the victims ... Everything is recorded in these files. It's great that in this information, but it is bad and has no justification that have been kept secret for so long, "complained Representative Iraq Body Count.
United States has not only kept secret but has lobbied to prevent hang Wikileaks documents and has asked the media to not play. With little success, as happened in July with the leak of documents about the war in Afghanistan, Wikileaks has sent files in advance to several international media they had time to study them and give maximum filtration possible political impact. "I do not know if we have reached the maximum impact, but I think we're close," he joked yesterday the founder of the website.
The U.S. Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, has condemned and denounced the leaks that they endanger lives of people who have worked with allies in the invasion. Wikileaks, however, says it has taken all possible measures to protect the identity of informants.
A Pentagon spokesman yesterday came filtration rate "tragedy." He was referring to the fact that the leak occurred, not the tragic content of many of the parts of war. In one of them, for example, the crew of an Apache helicopter has in its goal of two men suspected of launching mortar fire on a military base in Baghdad in 2007. As the two men are giving up, the crew consulted a lawyer whether to accept the surrender, but the answer is no and that "objectives remain valid." The crew shoots the two men.
In another incident even more gruesome, one of the offices explains how a group of Iraqi soldiers executed in the street to a prisoner who was handcuffed. Other parties realize the torture of detainees and at least two medical reports indicate cases of torture as a cause of death of two detainees.
Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, the BBC said yesterday that the U.S. president, Barack Obama, should open an investigation after thousands of documents supporting the thesis that U.S. troops failed in their legal obligation to denounce the abuses they had detected. Nowak, who participated in trials on human rights abuses in the war in Bosnia and added that although these incidents do not have direct U.S. troops, having knowledge of them were forced to act according to the UN Convention on Torture.
Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty International's Middle East, said the report reinforced the view that the U.S. "has seriously violated international law by summarily deliver thousands of detainees to Iraqi security forces knowing they would be tortured and suffer large-scale abuses. "
British lawyer Phil Shinner said some of the facts in the documents involving UK troops, citing a case in which ensures that a rifleman on board a British tank fired without apparent need against an eight year old girl I was playing in the streets of Basra. "When an illegal and unjustified use of force must prosecute those responsible, so we want a thorough judicial investigation on the responsibility of the United Kingdom in the deaths of civilians in Iraq," he said.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/crimenes/Irak/revelan/mundo/elpepuint/20101024elpepiint_1/Tes
The 'roles' of the Iraqi conflict Iraq's crimes are revealed to the world Wikileaks 400,000 documents uncovers U.S. military about the war - The papers bring to light the abuse, murder and concealment of torture
WALTER OPPENHEIMER - London - 24/10/2010
The documents, published despite the pressure the Pentagon to prevent it, allow to increase by 15,000 the number of civilians killed by the conflict. Iraq Body Count, an organization trying to assess the number of victims of the war on record, now believes that in Iraq killed at least 150,000 people, 80% of them civilians.
A girl was killed while playing in the streets of Basra. A detainee handcuffed him out into the street to run dead. Two suspects who were surrendering were fired from an Apache helicopter at the base because they thought they were still "legitimate target." Are just a few examples of the macabre story of the day to day on the war in Iraq that emerges from the records that led the U.S. troops on the ground. There are thousands of cards that tell them or abuses by Iraqi troops loyal to the Allies. Washington did not want us knowing, but Wikileaks has brought to light through the Internet world.
About 400,000 internal documents of the U.S. Army released yesterday by the website Wikileaks have exposed the systematic abuse, torture and extrajudicial executions committed during the Iraq war both the Allied troops and, above all, by the Iraqi Army with tolerance of U.S. troops. Hillary Clinton has said that the distribution of documents endangers the lives of soldiers.
The documents, published despite the pressure the Pentagon to prevent it, allow to increase by 15,000 the number of civilians killed by the conflict. Iraq Body Count, an organization trying to assess the number of victims of the war on record, now believes that in Iraq killed at least 150,000 people, 80% of them civilians.
Wikileaks released last July and more than 90,000 official documents about the war in Afghanistan. Yesterday filtration multiply that number by four and offers a chilling portrait of human rights abuses in the war in Iraq, which is "the intimate detail of this war from the perspective of the United States" in the words of Julian Assange , founder of Wikileaks, which defended London filtration wrapped by representatives of Iraq Body Count and several human rights defenders.
The documents are a total of 391,831 reports of "significant action" drawn up by U.S. troops in Iraq that describe executions and torture of detainees, often carried out by Iraqi Army soldiers. Professor John Sloboda of Iraq Body Count, said in a press conference in London that the deaths of these 15,000 people now disclosed by these documents "is not the product of major bombings, but small incidents that have killed a or two people each and have been occurring almost every day throughout the period of the war. " "This is premeditated murder, shooting at random from vehicles, executions, killings at checkpoints. These are small but incessant tragedies of this war that these documents reveal with unprecedented detail," he added.
The documents state that there have been 109,000 violent deaths in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, before the invasion began in March 2003 - and that among those dead were 66,081 civilians, 23,984 classified as "enemy", 15,196 are members of the security forces 3,771 are Iraqi and coalition troops. These figures seem to contradict earlier claims that the U.S. has never done a count of civilian deaths in the Iraq war.
"Now we are able to ensure that in total have been killed over 150,000 people since 2003, of which about 80% were civilians," Sloboda said. "The media had reported many of these deaths, including 35 that occurred on a given day in Baghdad. But these documents show that on that day those deaths occurred in 27 different locations and also reveal the details and circumstances of each incident and in many cases the identity of the victims, "he said. "Day by day and secretly, the U.S. soldiers in Iraq have been writing reports on violent deaths that have resulted, they have witnessed or have obtained information. Dates, times, exact location in which they occurred, names, ages, occupations of the victims ... Everything is recorded in these files. It's great that in this information, but it is bad and has no justification that have been kept secret for so long, "complained Representative Iraq Body Count.
United States has not only kept secret but has lobbied to prevent hang Wikileaks documents and has asked the media to not play. With little success, as happened in July with the leak of documents about the war in Afghanistan, Wikileaks has sent files in advance to several international media they had time to study them and give maximum filtration possible political impact. "I do not know if we have reached the maximum impact, but I think we're close," he joked yesterday the founder of the website.
The U.S. Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, has condemned and denounced the leaks that they endanger lives of people who have worked with allies in the invasion. Wikileaks, however, says it has taken all possible measures to protect the identity of informants.
A Pentagon spokesman yesterday came filtration rate "tragedy." He was referring to the fact that the leak occurred, not the tragic content of many of the parts of war. In one of them, for example, the crew of an Apache helicopter has in its goal of two men suspected of launching mortar fire on a military base in Baghdad in 2007. As the two men are giving up, the crew consulted a lawyer whether to accept the surrender, but the answer is no and that "objectives remain valid." The crew shoots the two men.
In another incident even more gruesome, one of the offices explains how a group of Iraqi soldiers executed in the street to a prisoner who was handcuffed. Other parties realize the torture of detainees and at least two medical reports indicate cases of torture as a cause of death of two detainees.
Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, the BBC said yesterday that the U.S. president, Barack Obama, should open an investigation after thousands of documents supporting the thesis that U.S. troops failed in their legal obligation to denounce the abuses they had detected. Nowak, who participated in trials on human rights abuses in the war in Bosnia and added that although these incidents do not have direct U.S. troops, having knowledge of them were forced to act according to the UN Convention on Torture.
Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty International's Middle East, said the report reinforced the view that the U.S. "has seriously violated international law by summarily deliver thousands of detainees to Iraqi security forces knowing they would be tortured and suffer large-scale abuses. "
British lawyer Phil Shinner said some of the facts in the documents involving UK troops, citing a case in which ensures that a rifleman on board a British tank fired without apparent need against an eight year old girl I was playing in the streets of Basra. "When an illegal and unjustified use of force must prosecute those responsible, so we want a thorough judicial investigation on the responsibility of the United Kingdom in the deaths of civilians in Iraq," he said.
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