U.S. Army Doctors Involved in Abu Ghraib Torture Abuse
U.S. military doctors working in Iraq collaborated with interrogators in the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, an article in the British medical journal The Lancet said on Friday. A U.S. military spokesman said the article was inaccurate, and a spokesman for an American physicians group said that if the accusations are true, the doctors and other medical personnel should stand trial. The Lancet report by University of Minnesota professor Steven Miles suggested that some doctors falsified death certificates to cover up killings and hid evidence of beatings, and one detainee who collapsed after a beating was revived by medics so that the abuse could continue. "Army officials stated that a physician and a psychiatrist helped design, approve and monitor interrogations at Abu Ghraib," Miles wrote, citing U.S. congressional hearings, sworn statements of detainees and soldiers, medical journal accounts and aid agency information. The Pentagon denied Miles' report.
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]- One of the most startling charges in the articlele by Steven H. Miles was that medical personnel collaborated with the military in "designing and implementing psychologically and physically coercive interrogations," profoundly breaching medical ethics and human rights.
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