{"id":65954,"date":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/04\/30\/la-torture-us-privatisee-dernier-element-en-date-de-la-globalisation\/"},"modified":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T00:00:00","slug":"la-torture-us-privatisee-dernier-element-en-date-de-la-globalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/04\/30\/la-torture-us-privatisee-dernier-element-en-date-de-la-globalisation\/","title":{"rendered":"La torture (US privatis\u00e9e), dernier \u00e9l\u00e9ment en date de la globalisation<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

La torture (US privatis\u00e9e), dernier \u00e9l\u00e9ment en date de la globalisation<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t30 avril 2004 Dernier scandale en date, les photos de sc\u00e8nes de torture en Irak, photos notamment disponibles sur le site The Memory Hole<\/a>, qui a d\u00e9j\u00e0 distribu\u00e9 les photos de cercueils de G.I.’s tu\u00e9s en Irak rapatri\u00e9s aux USA. Cette affaire de mauvais traitements et tortures, d\u00e9j\u00e0 en cours d’investigation juridique par l’U.S. Army et d\u00e9sormais largement m\u00e9diatis\u00e9e<\/a>, repr\u00e9sente un autre cas tr\u00e8s particulier de l’\u00e9volution du syst\u00e8me de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale des Etats-Unis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl semble que des soldats inculp\u00e9s pour ces pratiques aient r\u00e9pliqu\u00e9, selon leurs avocats, en mettant en cause des ordres qui leur auraient \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9s par des sup\u00e9rieurs charg\u00e9s de la gestion du camp, et qui seraient des contractuels civils d\u00e9pendant de soci\u00e9t\u00e9s s\u00e9curitaires. (Pratique d\u00e9sormais courante, au vu des 15.000 civils agissant en Irak sous contrats civils, version postmoderne des mercenaires, mais cette fois r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement employ\u00e9s par les autorit\u00e9s am\u00e9ricaines. Pour rappel, ce sont quatre de ces contractuels civils qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9s et lapid\u00e9s par la foule \u00e0 Falloujah, d\u00e9clenchant les r\u00e9actions am\u00e9ricaines puis l’embrasement du mois d’avril. Barbarie pour barbarie, on esp\u00e8re que GW, qui avait visionn\u00e9 les films de la lapidation des quatre corps et avait clam\u00e9 son indignation humanitariste, prendra une minute pour aller s’indigner "humanitaristement" en cliquant sur thememoryhole.org<\/em>.) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSelon le Guardian<\/a> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Graphic photographs showing the torture and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners in a US-run prison outside Baghdad emerged yesterday from a military inquiry which has left six soldiers facing a possible court martial and a general under investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The scandal has also brought to light the growing and largely unregulated role of private contractors in the interrogation of detainees. According to lawyers for some of the soldiers, they claimed to be acting in part under the instruction of mercenary interrogators hired by the Pentagon.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb US military investigators discovered the photographs, which include images of a hooded prisoner with wires fixed to his body, and nude inmates piled in a human pyramid.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The pictures, which were obtained by an American TV network, also show a dog attacking a prisoner and other inmates being forced to simulate sex with each other. It is thought the abuses took place in November and December last year.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The pictures from Abu Ghraib prison have shocked the US Army. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the US military in Iraq, expressed his embarrassment and regret for what had happened.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb He told the CBS current affairs programme 60 Minutes II: If we can’t hold ourselves up as an example of how to treat people with dignity and respect, we can’t ask that other nations do that to our soldiers. Gen Kimmitt said the investigation began in January when an American soldier reported the abuse and turned over evidence that included photographs. That soldier said: There are some things going on here that I can’t live with’.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tCet incident particuli\u00e8rement grave pour la r\u00e9putation des forces arm\u00e9es US et des Etats-Unis met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence l’ampleur extraordinaire prise dans le syst\u00e8me \u00e9tats-unien par la privatisation syst\u00e9matique des questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale. Ce fait se place dans un courant g\u00e9n\u00e9ral qui affecte la crise irakienne, qui est un compl\u00e9ment de la d\u00e9structuration \u00e9conomique et culturelle du pays, par divers moyens dont la corruption n’est pas le moindre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCes deux aspects, privatisation et d\u00e9structuration, constituent les caract\u00e9ristiques essentielles du mouvement de globalisation, qui a ainsi une ampleur bien sup\u00e9rieure au seul champ \u00e9conomique. Les caract\u00e9ristiques en sont la d\u00e9r\u00e9gulation et l’absence d’une autorit\u00e9 centrale (l’\u00c9tat ou ses repr\u00e9sentants). Effectivement, dans le cas qui nous occupe, les v\u00e9ritables coupables, selon les affirmations de certains inculp\u00e9s, seraient des personnes \u00e9chappant \u00e0 la juridiction militaire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Lawyers for the soldiers argue they are being made scapegoats for a rogue military prison system in which mercenaries give orders without legal accountability.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb A military report into the Abu Ghraib case parts of which were made available to the Guardian makes it clear that private contractors were supervising interrogations in the prison, which was notorious for torture and executions under Saddam Hussein.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tPour le reste, cet incident confirme f\u00e2cheusement les accusations d’officiers britanniques<\/a> sur le comportement des Am\u00e9ricains vis-\u00e0-vis des Irakiens. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Speaking from his base in southern Iraq, the officer said: My view and the view of the British chain of command is that the Americans’ use of violence is not proportionate and is over-responsive to the threat they are facing. They don’t see the Iraqi people the way we see them. They view them as untermenschen. They are not concerned about the Iraqi loss of life in the way the British are. Their attitude towards the Iraqis is tragic, it’s awful.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The US troops view things in very simplistic terms. It seems hard for them to reconcile subtleties between who supports what and who doesn’t in Iraq. It’s easier for their soldiers to group all Iraqis as the bad guys. As far as they are concerned Iraq is bandit country and everybody is out to kill them.<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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