US War Crimes Continue against POWs

US war crimes in Afghanistan continue against the prisoners of war, as reported by Peter Symonds on the World Socialist Website, January 8, 2002 at:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/afgh-j08.shtml

Pertinent paragraphs:

"The prison built to house 800 holds nearly 3,500 POWs. Dozens of cases of dysentery have been reported. According to one account, “half a dozen men too weak to walk, one screaming with pain, were carried out of their cells to a clinic where medics set up intravenous drips.” Many were sick or wounded when they were transported to the jail over a month ago."

"According to Afghan authorities, any delay in releasing the POWs was due to US demands to interrogate the prisoners. Teams of CIA, FBI and other US officials have been engaged in systematically grilling the thousands of Taliban held in Afghanistan and also Pakistan to identify those to be interrogated further. The procedure openly flouts the Geneva Convention, which provides that POWs are obliged to give only their name, rank, date of birth and serial number."

"But many of the foreign Taliban held in detention are anything but hardened Al Qaeda members as a series of interviews with prisoners at Shibarghan published in the New York Times makes clear:"