Van kwaad tot erger
Rasul Kudaev – 2005
In 2004 werden ze vrijgelaten – zeven Russische staatsburgers die in Pakistan en Afghanistan in de ‘War on Terror’ werden opgepakt. De Amerikanen hadden van de Russen de ‘diplomatieke garantie’ gekregen dat ze in Rusland een eerlijk proces tegemoet zouden zien.
In the final analysis, the Russians were worse.
Rasul Kudaev – 2006
None of the six who spoke to Reprieve said they were beaten (in Guatanamo). But all complained of intense psychological pressure, including long periods in solitary confinement, sexual humiliation inflicted by female staff, sleep deprivation, and the spraying of a pepper gas that in some cases may have caused long-term damage to the eyes. Many complained of being put in a freezing cold room for several hours, sometimes after being allowed to “shower” but given no towel to dry off, apparently to worsen the experience of cold. All of them were given injections without information about what the syringes contained, and some said they felt seriously ill afterward.
En dat was nog maar het begin, in Rusland begon een heksenjacht op deze ‘terreurverdachten’. Ze werden aan vanalles medeplichtig gesteld, hun schuld was immers reeds bewezen door hun aanwezigheid in Guatanamo.
