A recent Al-Jazeera article talks about the US torture center at Baghram, Afghanistan. One of the former detainees interviewed, named Sultan, speaks of losing his teeth during interrogation (ie torture). Pakistani political prisoner Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who was also secretly detained at Baghram (her name did not appear in any prison registry, contrary to international law), similarly lost her teeth. This raises the possibility that this was standard practice by US forces, who claimed to be in Afghanistan to bring democracy there. The question remains: When will the US (and their equally genocidal predecessors, the Russians) be held accountable for the death and destruction it wrought on Afghanistan and its people?
--Nadrat Siddique
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