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Article: IRAQ - Shi'ites Torturing Sunnis.
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- APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy
- Article date:
- November 21, 2005
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The discovery of malnourished detainees, many bearing signs of torture, in an underground bunker at the Iraqi Interior Ministry came after a US soldier investigated an Iraqi family's complaints that one of its sons was being secretly held. When US troops raided the facility on Nov. 13, they expected to find at most 40 detainees, not 173 sickly men and boys, all Sunni Arabs. Iraqi officials have since confirmed that torture implements were found there.
The Christian Science Monitor on Nov. 17 quoted "human rights advocates and some Iraqi politicians" as saying: "The revelation of torture of detainees at a secret interrogation center in Baghdad is likely to prove ...