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Prisoners
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Abuse of Iraqi POWs by GIs Probed 
 This site is a companion to an April 2004 CBS 60 Minutes II report about allegations of U.S. soldiers torturing prisoners of war in Iraq. The site includes video clips and links to related stories. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/27/60II/main614063.shtml Topics: Crime, Military, War and Peace: Resources on Iraq Last updated Sep 5, 2005 Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade
Full text of the report, prepared by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba of the U.S. Army, on alleged abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad, Iraq. The investigation was ordered by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of Joint Task Force-7 and the senior U.S. military official in Iraq. Opens directly into a PDF file. http://www.npr.org/iraq/2004/prison_abuse_report.pdf Topics: Crime, Military, War and Peace: Resources on Iraq Last updated Sep 5, 2005 Bataan Rescue
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience program about the Bataan Death March during World War II. "In late 1941, tens of thousands of American and Filipino soldiers fought a desperate battle to defend the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines from the Japanese. When they lost, they were marched to prison camps. ... Many thousands died." The site includes a timeline, gallery, map, and survivor interviews. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bataan/ Topics: Crime, Military, World War II Last updated Jan 2, 2009 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
The complete text of this instrument of international human rights for prisoners of war (POWs), which went into force October 21, 1950. From the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Also available in French and Spanish. http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/prisonerwar.htm Topics: Crime, International Governments, International Law, Treaties, & Agreements, Law by Place (U.S. States & non-U.S.), Military, War and Peace: Resources on Iraq Last updated Jul 31, 2009 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): The ICRC in Iraq
Compilation of press articles and briefings, FAQs, operational updates, and other documents highlighting the ICRC's current activities in Iraq and its position on the 2003 war. The "principal concern remains the situation of people deprived of freedom." Available in several languages. http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/iraq?OpenDocument Topics: Charity & Nonprofit Resources, Health, Poverty, War and Peace: Resources on Iraq Last updated Sep 5, 2005 Iraq
This special report from National Public Radio (NPR) provides ongoing coverage of the postwar efforts to build a new Iraqi government and rejuvenate the nation's oil-based economy. Includes essays on topics including humanitarian issues and casualties, "personal accounts and reflections of individuals affected by the Iraq war, from the combat zone to the home front," commentaries, maps, and related resources. Note: this site is the successor to NPR's "Beyond the War in Iraq" feature. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1010 Topics: Oil & Gas, War and Peace: Resources on Iraq Last updated Sep 9, 2009 Jack Hamann, Rewriting History in "American Soil"
This companion to a National Public Radio (NPR) program features the text of the first chapter of "On American Soil." Using declassified evidence, Hamann revisits the hanging of an Italian prisoner of war near a U.S. Army base in Washington state and the subsequent court martial of African American soldiers charged with the assault. Includes links to background information, a timeline, and an interview with the author. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4659346 Topics: Activism, Black Resources, Crime, Military, Mysteries and More, U.S. History By Place, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 26, 2005 Prisoner Abuse: Patterns From the Past
This May 2004 electronic briefing discusses U.S. interrogation manuals from the Cold War era. It features the full text of two CIA manuals: "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual-1983 and KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation-July 1963, [which] were originally obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Baltimore Sun in 1997." Also includes two related memos from the 1990s. From the National Security Archive at the George Washington University. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/ Topics: Government, Government, History, Military, National Security, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 19, 2004 The Story of Iraq
Provides background information on the Iraqi conflict and the war, military forces, weapons inspections, the United Nations, foreign relations, biographical information, weapons of mass destruction, and prisoner abuse. Also covers the handover of power by the United States and election details. Includes links. Searchable. From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/iraq/ Topics: History By Place, War and Peace: Resources on Iraq Last updated Sep 5, 2005 The Torture Question
This Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Frontline program "traces the history of how decisions made in Washington in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 ... led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and Iraq." Features opinion from legal experts about whether torture is ever justified, analysis of treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, a video tour of U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, photos, and more. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, War and Peace: Resources on Iraq Last updated Nov 2, 2005 |
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