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Photos On The Net.. ‘Iraqi Woman Raped’
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Abu
Gharib notorious prison in Baghdad
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CAIRO,
May 3 (IslamOnline.net) – Photos of an Iraqi woman raped by U.S.
occupation soldiers in a desert area make intensive circulation on
websites these days, adding to shockwaves of “immoral and brutal
practices” of U.S.-led occupation forces against Iraqi prisoners.
The
identities of the woman being raped and the western-looking males in
military outfit have yet to be verified.
The
photos surfaced only few days after western newspapers published some
photos that revealed the inhumane and torturous practices of the U.S.
soldiers against Iraqi prisoners.
Western
newspapers published other photos that show the immoral crimes
perpetrated against Iraqi detainees, including urinating on them and
taking off all their clothes. Such photos have led to a wave of fury
spreading all over the world.
Several
websites, including alBasrah website, posted photos that show three
U.S. soldiers in Iraq brutally raping a Bedouin Iraqi woman who
appears to be almost naked.
Some
individuals described the content of such photos as
"catastrophic", "shameful" and constituting a
"barbaric crime".
Millan
Silch, a Swiss of a Czech origin, has contacted IslamOnline.net and
urged it to "launch an intensive campaign to disclose the U.S.
occupation practices in Iraq so as to put an end to such practices and
punish the perpetrators," expressing his "severe shock over
seeing such photos."
Silch,
who introduced himself as an anti-war activist, said, "An
individual, who have faith in the principles of justice, freedom and
human rights, can not help but feel outraged when seeing such
photos."
A
technical expert told him that the rape photos have been taken through
a video network, according to Silch.
Brutal
Practices
On
Friday January 30, Quds Press has published a statement issued by
Iraqi female prisoners that were released from Abu Gharib prison in
Baghdad saying they were sexually harassed by U.S. occupation forces
and some of them were raped.
The
statement then urged Muslims and tribesmen in Iraq to “hastily come
to the rescue of female Iraqi detainees in prisons run by the
occupation”.
Many
civilians have charged that the U.S. occupation forces helped
undermine morality in the country by spreading vicious acts, including
sex trade and drug
dealing since they rolled into Baghdad on April 9, 2003.
Human
Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released
July 16, 2003 that the failure of Iraqi and U.S. occupation
authorities to provide public security in Iraq's capital lies at the
root of a widespread fear of rape and abduction among women and their
families.
The
"Climate of Fear: Sexual Violence and Abduction of Women and
Girls in Baghdad" report said that the failure of Iraqi and
U.S.-led occupation authorities to provide public security in Iraq's
capital lies at the root of a widespread fear of rape and abduction
among women and their families.
HRW
researchers interviewed rape and abduction victims and witnesses,
Iraqi police and health professionals, U.S. military police and civil
affairs officers, and learned of twenty-five credible allegations of
rape or abduction.
On
May 30, 2003, a British soldier was
questioned over sickening "torture" photos of Iraqi
prisoners, including an Iraqi PoW dangling from a fork-lift truck, and
others depict soldiers committing sex acts near captured Iraqis.
The
abuses led to growing sentiments against U.S. and British forces among
ordinary Iraqis, one year after the occupation of their oil-rich
country.
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