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New website archives docs on medical operations in GWOT prisons

April 17th, 2007

Steven Miles, author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror, informs us of a fantastic new website he has been working on for many months. here is his description:

 This website will contain all 60,000 pages of government documents pertaining to the medical operations in the war on terror prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at Guantanamo Bay.

This website includes:
a.. administration policies,
b.. DoD policies,
c.. DoD and FBI e-mails,
d.. medical policies in order by site.
e.. medical records,
f.. autopsy reports,
g.. death certificates,
h.. policies for the theaters and bases, i.. DoD criminal investigations with sworn witness statements j.. Some trial transcripts, etc.
Equally importantly,
a.. the documents will be on a stable server at Human Rights Library website that is permanent and draws about 2 million visits a month from 100 countries.
b.. the documents will be fully indexed so that they can be found.
These documents contain many stories that have not been told.  The final version had identified 148 prisoner deaths including that of a child of untreated tuberculosis at Camp Cropper, a woman, and a several ghost prisoners.  It tells of a high value woman who was pregnant when arrested.
JAGS took new newborn from her for placement in an orphanage or with her family and she was sent to be interrogated.

In short, this is the largest and most accessible compendium of government documents describing the medical operations in the war on terror prisons that has been assembled.

The website will be operational early next week.  I will post the link when it goes live.

Entry Filed under: APA, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Iraq, Psychology, Rights and Liberties, Social Issues, Terrorism, Torture, War Crimes, War and Peace