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| Amnesty Says Israel Committed Torture in West Bank |
| 2002-05-15 |
| Israel has come under attack from the Human Rights Organization Amnesty International, which accuses it of torture and inhuman treatment of Palestinians during the recent Israeli operation in the West Bank, AFP said. Has AI finished investigating the summary executions without trial by the Palestinians? Boy, that was fast. Can't wait to see that report... "During the latest Israeli incursions into Palestinian refugee camps and other residential areas, thousands of Palestinians have been arrested, held in prolonged incommunicado detention and subjected to cruel and degrading treatment," Amnesty said in a briefing submitted Tuesday to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT). Some of those detained got so mad at their treatment they just exploded... The CAT will on Wednesday discuss the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories for the second time in six months. In November, the UN Committee had called on Israel to investigate allegations of torture by its security forces against Palestinians, and said it was unconvinced that all such acts had stopped after a 1999 Israeli supreme court ruling. Amnesty said the CAT held that "Administrative detention without charge or trial, which has recently increased enormously, might constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." And swarms of wild-eyed fanatics exploding at every opportunity doesn't? I must say, I admire the restraint of the IDF in taking these swine into custody instead of ventilating them on the spot. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |