Abu Ghraib

The Iraqi prison twenty miles away from Baghdad Abu Ghraib is now infamous for maltreatment. It is unknown how many people the prison held. The vast majority of prisoners were civilians picked up by the military at traffic stops. They were undocumented in the prison or placed under an ambiguous category of "common criminals" or those suspected of "crimes against the coalition". Most were not meant to be in Abu Ghraib, but since many prisoners were undocumented, this went overlooked as did the abuse against them. Specialist Joseph Darby exposed the wrongdoings that were happening at the prison when he came across naked pictures of detainees on prison guard Charles Graner 's camera. At first, Darby thought the pictures were of the guards, but…

Horror endorsed through duty and a review of its controversy led many to question the ethics of being truly and fully obedient. Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, journalist and author of “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism”, discusses the possible reasons why the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal occurred (75-77). Causing people to wonder how supposedly sane human beings could accomplish such insane acts, the American soldiers that were a share of this horrific crime against humanity displayed no…

Torture and Gendered violence in Abu Ghraib INTRODUCTION As the British journalist Fisk (2010) mentioned in " Robert Fisk: The truth about 'honour' killings”, most female prisoners held at Abu Ghraib were raped, and some of them even got killed after returning home because their families felt shamed. On the other hand, Zurbriggen (2008) points out that male prisoners in Abu Ghraib also suffered from sexualized torture and abuse from female American soldiers. In "The…

As Marianne Szegedy-Maszak states in “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism,” everyone has the potential to be a torturer (Szegedy-Maszak 76). According to Szegedy-Maszak, the “unconscionable acts” committed at Abu Ghraib were likely caused by “the anxiety and helplessness” of their living conditions in Iraq (76). In attempt to investigate the motives behind sadistic acts in situations similar to the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal, Philip G. Zimbardo, author of “The Stanford Prison…

Abu Ghraib Torture and Prison Abuse and The Bataan Death March are two comparative events in US history. The Abu Ghraib Torture and Prison Abuse was a series of human rights violations against prisoners in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, which began in March of 2003. The Bataan Death March was the relocation by foot of American Prisoners from the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O, Donnel a prisoner camp of the Japanese during World War 2. While both Abu Ghraib and The Bataan Death March are a result of…

Torture is outlawed in international law and US law; yet the practice continues. Evidence suggests that the United States tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib. This paper suggests that torture occurred at Abu Ghraib and may continue to occur because guards naturally display their dominance over prisoners, in order to stay in control and because Abu Ghraib Prison was massively understaffed and soldiers and interrogators were untrained. When the United States was receiving too much publicity for the…

people. At its worst, the seemingly perfect leadership causes incidents like Abu Ghraib to take place.…

prison system in Abu Ghraib, located in Iraq. It’s astounding how the people whom lead our precious America could be such savages in the face of temptation. And so much so, how could we as a country be the country we are and continuously deny our roles in these events. The leaders of our free have once again aimed at keeping world information, as only official information. We can now watch and read of what actually happened and why the government doesn’t want us to know about it. This book is an…

CACI Premier Technology is a private contractor that provided the interrogators in Abu Ghraib prison. CACI interrogators, have been accused of participating in torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Even though the interrogators worked under the United States Army, they were not bound by Army regulations. “Now, you have some contractors, some civilians who are not under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, who have been sent there specifically to do interrogation work with great…

United States’ need to invade Iraq (Khan 64). Within the borders of Iraq, US soldiers dehumanized Iraqi citizens by torturing them in a prison known as Abu Ghraib and photographed themselves doing so. Challenging the same ideals of freedom and justice that President Bush stated the need for, the Abu Ghraib photos displayed sneering US soldiers posing with naked prisoners, detainees commanded to perform sexual acts, and piles of hooded bodies.…