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Titolo: da Ha'aretz, sulle torture dell' IDF

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Reserve battalion torn by crisis over indicted commander
Based on the findings of the Military Police investigation, it was one of
the ugliest affairs to come out of Operation Defensive Shield in April. Now,
it is also tearing a reserve battalion to shreds.
On one side of the barricade is the battalion commander, who is charged with
severely abusing Palestinians during the operation. He vehemently protests
his innocence, and so far, he remains in his post. On the other side are
most of the battalion's other senior officers. They are the ones who filed
the complaint about their commander's behavior, and now they are planning to
leave the battalion because the army refused their request to oust or, at
least, suspend the commander.
The dispute revolves around a difficult question: Does suspending an officer
before he has even been tried constitute premature punishment of a man who
might be found innocent?
To date, Lieutenant Colonel Geva Saguy is the most senior officer to be put
on trial for acts committed during the current intifada. Two months ago, he
was charged in a military court with extortion, behavior unbecoming an
officer and exceeding his authority to the point of endangering human life
during his battalion's service in the Bethlehem area last April.
According to the indictment, Saguy and some of his soldiers were searching
for a wanted terrorist who was not at home. Saguy, therefore, ordered the
man's son to strip naked, then demanded, under threat, that he reveal both
his father's whereabouts and where his father's weaponry was hidden. At one
point, Saguy held a burning paper a hairsbreadth away from the youth's
testicles. He also tried to insert a bottle into the young man's anus, aimed
his weapon at him and threatened to shoot him. A sergeant translated Saguy's
threats into Arabic and beat the youth.
In another incident, Saguy allegedly used a Senegalese woman who was working
as a maid in the city as a "human shield" while he was conducting
house-to-house searches.
The complaint against Saguy was filed by the deputy battalion commander, two
company commanders and the battalion's operations officer. "We heard Geva
boasting about what he'd done in the officers' tent," explained one. "At
first, we didn't believe him; but we conducted our own inquiry and the
testimony of the soldiers who were there confirmed the story."
The officers also have other grievances against Saguy, who was transferred
in from another battalion almost a year ago. From the start, his relations
with some of the other battalion officers were poor, and they accuse him of
unreliability and of poor operational conduct during Defensive Shield.
In addition to informing the Military Police, the officers repeatedly asked
the divisional commander, Brigadier General Amos Ben-Avraham, to either oust
or suspend Saguy. Each time, Ben-Avraham told them to wait - until the
investigation was completed, until the judge advocate-general had decided
whether or not to indict, and, finally, until the end of the trial.
Ben-Avraham argued that suspension was essentially a punishment, and that it
would be wrong to punish Saguy before he was convicted.
There are certainly reasons to admire Ben-Avraham's decision to back his
commander, even knowing that he might be hung out to dry for it in the
media. The IDF does not have a surplus of senior reserve officers. And there
was a case last year in which another reserve battalion commander was
pummeled in the press for an alleged offense, but then acquitted by a
disciplinary tribunal. That battalion ended its service in Gaza last month
with a citation for being "a top-quality battalion that should serve as an
example for the entire reserve system."
But Saguy's battalion is being destroyed by the affair. The battalion is
slated to conduct a training exercise in October, but the deputy commander
was not summoned for the exercise, nor were the other three officers who
complained. Temporary replacements were appointed for them.
In response, all four wrote to Ben-Avraham asking to be relieved of their
responsibilities in the battalion, saying they could not serve under a
commander in whom they had no confidence.
One company commander said he believed this request would be granted. But a
senior army source disagreed, saying the IDF had already canceled the
temporary appointments and had called up the four original officers for the
exercise. The net result is as follows: Geva Saguy, indicted on serious
charges, continues to command his battalion; those who blew the whistle on
his alleged misdeeds are likely to leave the battalion; and several soldiers
who testified against Saguy will now have to serve under him.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=207874&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
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