NationStates Jolt Archive


U.S. using secret Ethiopian prisons

Dexlysia
04-04-2007, 18:25
But it's ok that suspects are being held without charges, because they're all terrorists.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.

Human rights groups, lawyers and several Western diplomats assert hundreds of prisoners, who include women and children, have been transferred secretly and illegally in recent months from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia, where they are kept without charge or access to lawyers and families.

The detainees include at least one U.S. citizen and some are from Canada, Sweden and France, according to a list compiled by a Kenyan Muslim rights group and flight manifests obtained by AP.

Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/03/AR2007040301042.html)
Greater Trostia
04-04-2007, 18:28
But it's ok that suspects are being held without charges, because they're all terrorists.


Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/03/AR2007040301042.html)

What's absolutely appalling is... many people AGREE with you. They DONT see sarcasm. They LITERALLY believe it's OK because "they're all terrorists."

It makes me want to vomit.

And it makes me hate the people of my country.
Neesika
04-04-2007, 18:35
Scary times we live in. This doesn't even make me raise my eyebrows. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Forsakia
04-04-2007, 18:36
*sighs* again?
Neesika
04-04-2007, 18:37
*sighs* again?

Yeah, exactly.
Redwulf25
04-04-2007, 18:39
But it's ok that suspects are being held without charges, because they're all terrorists.


Source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/03/AR2007040301042.html)

Did you find out about this just now or something?
Neesika
04-04-2007, 18:43
This particular batch, yes. I just saw it in my analog newspaper.

:D
Dexlysia
04-04-2007, 18:44
Did you find out about this just now or something?

This particular batch, yes. I just saw it in my analog newspaper.
Deus Malum
04-04-2007, 18:45
What else is new? We're becoming a humanitarian nightmare, and no one seems to give a flying f.
Gravlen
04-04-2007, 19:09
It's a sad state of affairs...
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
04-04-2007, 19:09
Well, I, for one, am quite pleased to see that the Ethiopians are diversifying their economy from its primary industry (that is, starving to death in front of TV-crews) and branching out to the exciting field of facilitating other nation's human rights abuses. And with at least 18 more months of Bush, an increasingly conservative Europe, and a rising China, things can only get better for this humble little African former empire.
Good show, Ethiopia!
UN Protectorates
04-04-2007, 19:12
... an increasingly conservative Europe...

*Screeeeeech*

Hold on a minute there. When did the EU members states suddenly start becoming so conservative again?