American Soldiers Rent-boys for Chinese Torturers

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

Authoritarianism is authoritarianism, and I think the new fascistic America just found a new ass-buddy in the ChiComgov

Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work' for Chinese Interrogators
Alleges Guantanamo Personnel Softened Up Detainees at Request of Chinese Intelligence
By JUSTIN ROOD

May 20, 2008—

U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men -- or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report.

Buried in a Department of Justice report released Tuesday are new allegations about a 2002 arrangement between the United States and China, which allowed Chinese intelligence to visit Guantanamo and interrogate Chinese Uighurs held there.

According to the report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, an FBI agent reported a detainee belonging to China's ethnic Uighur minority and a Uighur translator told him Uighur detainees were kept awake for long periods, deprived of food and forced to endure cold for hours on end, just prior to questioning by Chinese interrogators.

Susan Manning, a lawyer who represents several Uighurs still held at Guantanamo, said Tuesday the allegations are all too familiar.

U.S. personnel "are engaging in abusive tactics on behalf of the Chinese," she said Tuesday. When Uighur detainees refused to talk to Chinese interrogators in 2002, U.S. military personnel put them in solitary confinement as punishment, she said.

"Why are we doing China's dirty work?" Manning said. "Surely we're better than that."

An official authorized to speak on behalf of the Defense Department but who declined to be named confirmed it was Pentagon policy to allow officials from other countries to have access to interview their nationals at Guantanamo but declined to discuss the specifics alleged in the report.

According to Fine's report, the FBI agent said the Uighur detainee told him that the night before his interrogation by Chinese officials, "he was awakened at 15-minute intervals the entire night and into the next day." The detainee also allegedly said he was "exposed to low room temperatures for long periods of time and was deprived of at least one meal."

"The agent stated that he understood that the treatment of the Uighur detainees was either carried out by the Chinese interrogators or was carried out by U.S. personnel at the behest of Chinese interrogators," the report by the Department of Justice inspector general stated.

U.S. forces captured roughly three dozen Uighurs in eastern Afghanistan shortly after invading the country in October 2001. The men said they were working there to earn money for families back home and to evade the Chinese government, which is known for taking a harsh and uncompromising line with separatist Uighurs.

The U.S. State Department has found China to have suppressed the religious freedom of Uighurs, who are Muslim, and has accused the Chinese government of persecuting, even executing, those who advocate Uighur independence.

In 2006, after the United States released five Uighurs from Guantanamo, China asked for them to be repatriated so they could be prosecuted as terrorists. The United States declined to do so, out of concern they would not be treated humanely. Instead they transferred the men to Albania, which was the only country out of 90 approached by the U.S. government who would take them.

The Pentagon says it is trying to release and resettle the majority of the 17 Uighurs who remain in Guantanamo, although it says it still considers them enemy combatants and a threat.

[Buddha]

The article mentions that it's the Uighurs that are being tortured in Guantanamo Bay. I don't get why the Chinese would need to outsource thier victims to an American prison or why they would know about the prison. Is there a list of all the major world power's prisons and asking rates for third party torture? When are they going to start doing their own abuse of prisoners?

[Edi]

These are prisoners seized by the US in Afghanistan and the Chinese asked access to them, which was given along with the apparently requested torture assistance.

[Shroom Man 777]

Why would the Chinese want access to American prisoners? Do they have their own terrorist problems in their Western desert areas that connect to A-stan? Or were they just being friendly?

[NecronLord]

or why they would know about the prison.

What? Gitmo? They'd know about it because it's been in the papers?

[NecronLord]

Why would the Chinese want access to American prisoners? Do they have their own terrorist problems in their Western desert areas that connect to A-stan? Or were they just being friendly?

Uighurs are an ethnic group found in China, various 'stans around there (Khazakstan etc.), Pakistan, and Russia. China's (not just them I'd imagine) want greater independance, and just happen to be Muslims. Therefore, they get 're-educated' by their loving ChiCom masters who are our glorious allies in this War of Terror.

Related
Human Rights Watch.

[Grasscutter]

Why would the Chinese want access to American prisoners? Do they have their own terrorist problems in their Western desert areas that connect to A-stan? Or were they just being friendly?

Yup, the Chinese are just as concerned about radical Islamic terrorists as the U.S. and the U.K.

This is absolute bullshit. U.S. leaders denouncing PRC human rights violations was hypocritical enough thanks to Guantanamo, and now we're directly torturing prisoners FOR the PRC?

[Shroom Man 777]

Eastasia is my best friend.

*sees Vladimir Putin*

Fuck Eurasia.

Looks like Spartafreedomerica is siding with the Sinos over the Soviets. Which is pretty bad. Damn, I wonder what that does for Tom Clancy's Randome Altarnate Realties.

Though to be more serious, how good are the geopolitikal relationships of the US and China? We know they're both economically intertwined like incestuous conjoined siblings, but does it mean we'll be seeing more "collaborations" like this in the future?

[MKSheppard]

Remember, the XPCC Special Administrative Detention Facility to replace Gitmo is next!