Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Rasmussen implicato nelle torture in Irak

 
Altro puffo, potrebbe essere accusato di crimini di guerra.
 
A scandal unfolding in Denmark over the transfer of Iraqi prisoners by 
Danish forces to Iraq authorities, even as they knew they would be tortured, 
threatens to implicate the current Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh 
Rasmussen, formerly prime minister of Denmark from 2001-2009.
 
The defense ministry in the government of former Prime Minister Rasmussen is 
charged with withholding its knowledge of Iraqi torture from legislators 
when a copy of a 2004 inspection at Al Makil prison in Basra was sent to 
Parliament.
 
According to an article last month in the Danish paper Politiken, portions 
of the report describing prisoner abuse were "blacked out," with the reason 
given that such "information could harm Danish-Iraq cooperation."
 
Yet, three months before the prison inspection, in May 2004, during a debate 
in the Danish Parliament concerning Iraqi prisoners, according to the paper 
Dagbladet Information, then-Prime Minister Rasmussen said the government 
would "disclose information about torture, if the government becomes aware 
that it occurs." But evidently, this did not occur.
 
According to The Copenhagen Post, a Danish English-language daily, the July 
2004 investigation by Danish Army legal adviser Maj. Kurt Borgkvist revealed 
that "prisoners in Iraqi prisons had been burned with cigarettes, had their 
molars crushed and been beaten around their genitals. Some were even missing 
fingers, Borgkvist reported." The resulting report included photographic 
evidence, which has been described as "Abu Ghraib-lignende" ("Abu 
Ghraib-like") by the previous Danish defense minister.
 
Rasmussen, leader of Denmark's Liberal Party, resigned as prime minister in 
April 2009 in order to accept a position as NATO's secretary general. Most 
recently, he was an outspoken supporter of NATO's military support to the 
overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in Libya. Last November, the Liberal Party 
and its coalition partners lost power for the first time in almost a decade, 
losing to a coalition led by the Social Democrats. Rasmussen was also a key 
supporter of the US campaign to go to war in Iraq in 2003, ironically citing 
in a UN address Iraqi violations of international anti-torture treaties.
 
The scandal first arose in 2010 from documents released by WikiLeaks in the 
"Iraq War Logs." A November 2010 article at Ice News reported how a memo 
released by WikiLeaks described an inquiry by "a Danish Defence Ministry 
official" regarding "what happened at the American Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq 
after media reports of torture and abuse in 2003." Subsequently, "Danish 
soldiers continued to hand over prisoners to the facility, however, even 
after the torture was officially confirmed several months later."
 
"'That Denmark didn't intervene in time simply shows that someone must have 
stopped the criticism at the political level', said Social Democratic 
Defense Spokesman John Dyrby Paulsen. 'That is also why we want an inquiry 
into all of this', he added."
 
 

 Altro puffo, potrebbe essere accusato di crimini di guerra.
 
Quello è certo, vedi l'aggressione alla Libia
 
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