Prisoners experimented on at Guantanamo Bay

[rednikki]

According to Physicians for Human Rights, the CIA experimented on prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. This is a violation of the Nuremberg Code, among many other laws. Groups such as The National Religious Campaign Against Torture are demanding an investigation, as is an editorial in the New York Times. Meanwhile, Post columnists are pointing to comments

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Re: "Just torture"

[rdi]

And not nearly as bad as Nazi torture. You have to keep these things in perspective, after all.

Re: "Just torture"

[djinnthespazz]

Ugh. This.

[delerium69]

I can't download the white paper right now, but on a side-note I want to address: the "lampshades of skin" has been debunked and I wish people would stop referencing it because it gives fodder for Holocaust-deniers to point and say everything else about the Holocaust was a myth as well. There may have been one instance where it was done, but it was not any kind of regular Nazi practice in the camps. The acts they committed were horrific enough without fabricating other stories

[delerium69]

And in case anyone is wondering, no, after all of my reading of the acts of Nazi "doctors," I still cannot comprehend how a healer can experiment on a human being. (I have a hard enough time think about animal experiments.) But the Nazi period was a time of particularly extreme dehumanization, so in that, perhaps anything is possible.