SUARAM wants Putrajaya to establish an independent commission to probe the involvement of Malaysian authorities.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) has denounced a 500-page executive summary released by the US Senate on December 9, some 13 years after the 9/11 attack on the United States by the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
It has demanded the full report which totals more than 6700 pages, and remains classified, and steps taken by Washington to bring Malaysians and others involved to justice.
SUARAM also wants Putrajaya to establish immediately an independent commission to probe the involvement of Malaysian authorities in the rendition, detention and torture of alleged detainees in collaboration with the CIA in the global war on terror.
“Malaysia was named in having assisted the CIA in at least two cases in an earlier report titled ‘Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition’ by the Open Society Justice Initiative, February 2013,” said SUARAM
Executive Director Yap Swee Seng in a statement. “The names of U.S. allies had been omitted from the executive summary.”
“The details of the extent of ‘contribution’ by the Malaysian government remains unknown to the public.”
The Washington administration, added SUARAM, must fulfill its international and national obligations and prosecute those who are responsible for the abuse of power, especially in the use of torture, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and punishment on the detainees.
“It is apparent from the executive summary that the CIA’s program is akin to criminal actions and severely violates the international law and human rights law on prevention of torture and arbitrary detention.”
In the fight against terrorism, continued SUARAM, it is a shame that the leaders have turned to state terrorism in addressing the problem.
“Despite the skill and purported numerous successes of military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, tragic and terrorist events continue to grow, in particularly the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS),” noted SUARAM.
The executive summary, by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States, is on the full report on the assessment of the Detention and Interrogation Program and various torturous practices (which the U.S. called “enhanced interrogation techniques”) employed by the CIA on detainees between 2002 to 2007.
The report, supported with documents and photos, detailed numerous examples of inhumane interrogation practices by the CIA viz. water-boarding, rectal rehydration, detainees were slapped, slammed against walls, sleep deprived for up to seven days, some were stuffed into coffin-sized boxes amidst death threats.
At least 26 of the total detainees held by the CIA were subsequently found to have been improperly detained.
KUALA LUMPUR: Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) has denounced a 500-page executive summary released by the US Senate on December 9, some 13 years after the 9/11 attack on the United States by the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
It has demanded the full report which totals more than 6700 pages, and remains classified, and steps taken by Washington to bring Malaysians and others involved to justice.
SUARAM also wants Putrajaya to establish immediately an independent commission to probe the involvement of Malaysian authorities in the rendition, detention and torture of alleged detainees in collaboration with the CIA in the global war on terror.
“Malaysia was named in having assisted the CIA in at least two cases in an earlier report titled ‘Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition’ by the Open Society Justice Initiative, February 2013,” said SUARAM
Executive Director Yap Swee Seng in a statement. “The names of U.S. allies had been omitted from the executive summary.”
“The details of the extent of ‘contribution’ by the Malaysian government remains unknown to the public.”
The Washington administration, added SUARAM, must fulfill its international and national obligations and prosecute those who are responsible for the abuse of power, especially in the use of torture, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and punishment on the detainees.
“It is apparent from the executive summary that the CIA’s program is akin to criminal actions and severely violates the international law and human rights law on prevention of torture and arbitrary detention.”
In the fight against terrorism, continued SUARAM, it is a shame that the leaders have turned to state terrorism in addressing the problem.
“Despite the skill and purported numerous successes of military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, tragic and terrorist events continue to grow, in particularly the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS),” noted SUARAM.
The executive summary, by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States, is on the full report on the assessment of the Detention and Interrogation Program and various torturous practices (which the U.S. called “enhanced interrogation techniques”) employed by the CIA on detainees between 2002 to 2007.
The report, supported with documents and photos, detailed numerous examples of inhumane interrogation practices by the CIA viz. water-boarding, rectal rehydration, detainees were slapped, slammed against walls, sleep deprived for up to seven days, some were stuffed into coffin-sized boxes amidst death threats.
At least 26 of the total detainees held by the CIA were subsequently found to have been improperly detained.
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