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"I have no forgiveness for Abu Grais"
Why cannot you forget about torture in American prisons for terrorists: The New York Times
On December 9, the US Senate published a report on torture in the CIA secret prisons around the world. American interrogations specialists for the necessary indications from suspects in terrorism imitated drowning, deprived of prisoners, used rectal hydration techniques and many other torture to completely subordinate the interrogated. The report, the volume of which exceeds 6 thousand pages, exhaustively describes the methods of interrogations adopted in the CIA until recently. The New York Times publishes the column of Eric Fair, a former employee of the Abu-Grais prison in Baghdad, well known to brutal methods of handling prisoners.
“I conducted interrogations to Abu grab. I tortured people, ”Eric Fair admits. Now he is teaching at the University of Lihai in Pennsylvania writing skills, but his course is dedicated to the description of the war - and this does not allow you to forget about the past that has tormented him for the past 10 years. Lessons about how to write about the war do not allow to hide behind the thought that he is now just a teacher in college.
Fair admits-Abu Grais remains in his life every day, every minute. He can recall all the prisoners, can recall the smell of paint in the control of the US troops and a freshly renovated prison, where the statue of Saddam Hussein was hung with rags. Many Fair students did not remember or did not know about the scandal with photographs of bullying in Abu graiba-most recently he first encountered a generation for which those events did not mean anything. It is difficult to condemn them, then, in 2004, they studied in elementary school. The American military, who tried Iraqi prisoners in prison near Baghdad, is only a question for them in a history test. Abu Grad will surely be forgotten, Fair thought, and he himself can forget about his actions, if he only allows himself this.
It is easy to assure yourself that everything is left behind, writes Fair. He gave a lot of interviews about torture in Abu Grais, wrote detailed articles, collaborated with Amnesty International and gave comprehensive testimonies-it would seem that everything was done to leave this episode of life behind. You can no longer call yourself a person who conducted interrogations to Abu Grad. Over the years, the years of Fair, who have passed from the service in the Armed Forces, became a teacher at the university, a person who, it would seem, can be proud of his children.
“But this is not so. I conducted interrogations to Abu Grad. I tortured people, ”he writes.
The Senate published a report on torture. Many people were stunned: torture with water, much more common than before, a weekly deprivation of sleep, a terrible and humiliating procedure of "rectal hydration". I'm not surprised. I assure you - a lot remains beyond the scope of the report (English.).