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U.K. Ambassador: Renditioned Detainees ‘Raped With Broken Bottles’ in ‘Soviet-Style Gulags’
Posted: 5 November 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghan elections, Bush Administration, Central Asia, Craig Murray, enhanced interrogation techniques, extraordinary rendition, false confessions, fascism, George Bush, Gulags, Hamid Karzai, heroin, human rights, international law, ISAF, KGB, kidnapping, law, libertarian, Middle East, NATO, natural gas, Newspeak, Obama, oil, opium, political prisoners, prison rape, rendition, Soviet Union, terrorism, torture, US, USSR, Uzbekistan, War, War on Terror
The U.S. and U.K made extensive use of Uzbekistan’s the torture regime in its extraordinary rendition program, Craig Murray says, exporting interrogations to a country that “left the Soviet Union in order to maintain the Soviet system” of Gulag oppression.
