テロとの戦いの暗部
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元英軍兵士が、反戦集会で米英共同の非人道的な捕虜虐待の実態を証言しました。
“This task force has been responsible for the detention of hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Mr Griffin told an event hosted by the Stop the War Coalition.
The Foreign Office refused to comment on the allegations, but referred journalists back to the Government's statement last week. In it, David Miliband told MPs that Britain had recently been made aware of two US extraordinary rendition flights which had stopped off in the British Indian Ocean island territory of Diego Garcia in 2002 to refuel.
The Government claims that, before the recent US admission about Diego Garcia, it did not know that America used British soil for so-called "torture flights" and had no knowledge of alleged American military torture.
英軍はアフガンやイラクでの何百人もの捕縛にかかわってきた。英政府は、最近になって米軍がインド洋の英領で給油のために立ち寄ったことを知ったばかりで、米軍が「虐待飛行」のために英領を利用していたことや、米軍の捕虜虐待については全く把握していなかったと主張している。
“Throughout my time in Iraq I was in no doubt that individuals handed over to our American colleagues would be tortured,” he added. “I have no doubt in my mind that non-combatants I personally detained were handed over to the Americans and subsequently tortured.”
He added: “British soldiers are intimately involved in the actions of this task force. Jack Straw, Margaret Beckett, David Miliband, Geoff Hoon, Des Browne, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown - in their respective positions over the last five years they must know that British soldiers have been operating within this joint US/UK task force. They must have been briefed on the actions of this unit.
“It is only since I have left the Army - that I have read the Geneva Convention and the UN Convention on Torture - that I realised that we have broken so many of these conventions and treaties in Iraq. They should be charged with breaching these conventions.
“They must have had knowledge of what was going on, they have allowed it to happen, so I would like the lot of them charged.”
「私がイラクにいた間、私が米軍に引き渡した捕虜は間違いなく虐待されている。また、個人的に引き渡した非戦闘員も虐待を受けただろう。英軍はこの作戦に深くかかわっている。政府の指導者たちも知っていたに違いない。私は軍をやめて初めて、ジュネーブ条約や国連の虐待防止条約を知り、我々がイラクでこれらを破っていたことを知った。政府関係者はすべて知った上で放置した。彼らの罪は問われなければならない。」
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