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Press Release: Iraq
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[WB]IRAQ TORTURE CHAMBER IS REPORTED IN KUWAIT 05-OCTOBER-90
BAGHDAD, Iraq In the two months since Iraq seized Kuwait, the Bibi Saleh Center, a four towered condominium complex which was once a haven for wealthy foreigners and Kuwaiti playboys, has become a cornerstone of Kuwait's brutal subjugation, according to reliable sources fleeing the country.
Now, the Bibi Saleh Center is the site of the torture chamber of Iraq's secret police, or Mukhabarat – one of two tactical interrogation facilities widely known to be run by the agency.
According to dozens of senior diplomats, businessmen, and workers who have left Kuwait in recent weeks, the Iraqi occupiers have set out on a course of systematic execution, torture, and looting on a grand scale. Disappearance of Kuwaitis, including both prominent citizens and ordinary resisters, is also on the rise, 't amounts, as one diplomat put it, to the 'transplantation of an entire nation."
Eye witnesses said that at one Kuwait City hospital alone the mutilated bodies of about 230 victims have been delivered from the complex since Iraq invaded on August 2. In a report issued earlier this week, Amnesty International, the London-based group that monitors human rights worldwide, condemned what it called the summary executions and torture by Iraqi authorities in a campaign to crush the Kuwaiti resistance movement.
Referring specifically to the accounts of torture and abuse, one diplomat in Baghdad who has debriefed several witnesses said, "Over a period of weeks, we've had a large number of anecdotal cases of arson, house destruction, summary execution, and casual torture by Iraqi forces in Kuwait." He added, "But these are the first confident references to the establishment by the Iraqi secret police of an interrogation and torture facility, which we were hoping was not there. And obviously, it has been working for some time."
In the words of another diplomat who was based in Kuwait during and immediately after the invasion, "There is no doubt there was extensive torture going on, most of it to extract information about the Kuwaiti resistance and Iraqi opposition. And, apparently, it has been quite effective. The resistance is all but dead."
"These accounts, no matter how gruesome, must be viewed in their regional and historic context," the diplomat in Baghdad said. "It's all consistent with the historical record and culture handed down by 600 years of Turkish rule. What is more, that's the Iraqi way of doing business, which the Western world knows all too well. The West clearly doesn't seem to be too concerned when the Iraqis rape, rob, pillage, and execute their own people. The Americans, British, French, and Germans, for example, continued to do big business with Iraq despite the fact that torture and summary executions are a way of life here."
AP-PX-005-1O-90 1825 EDT/L
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31118azti - November 5, 2018, 7:55 am
Great artwork as usual!