More collaborative statements concerning the sexual torture of children
at Abu Ghraib have been made by the surviving prisoners themselves.
The following is
an excerpt from a statement provided by Kasim Mehaddi Hilas, Detainee on January 18 2004:
"I saw [name deleted] f*** a kid, his age would be about 15
years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with
sheets. Then when I heard the screaming I climbed the door because on
top it wasn't covered and I saw [name deleted] who was wearing the
military uniform putting his dick in the little kid's ass. I couldn't
see the face of the kid because his face wasn't in front of the door.
And a female soldier was taking pictures. The sodomizer [name deleted], I
think he is [deleted] because of his accent, and he was not skinny or
short, and he acted like a homosexual (gay). And that was in cell as
best as I remember."
The following is another testimony of sexual torture of Iraqi children
from a statement provided by Thaar Salman Dawod, Detainee on
January 17, 2004:
"I saw lots of people naked for a few days getting punished in the
first days of Ramadan. They came with two boys naked and they were
cuffed together face to face and Grainer was beating them and a group of
guards were watching and taking pictures from top and bottom and there
was three female soldiers laughing at the prisoners. The prisoners, two
of them, were children. I don't know their names."
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One of the most horrific incidents at Abu Ghraib is told by a 16 year
old Iraqi girl in her own words. Nadia, in tears, narrated her story:
You may have forgotten Nadia, the girl who was raped by the dogs of
the occupation in the notorious prison Abu Ghraib, and to revive your
memory, this is her story which she revealed; she did not throw herself
in the arms of her family, like any aggrieved, oppressed prisoner would
do, a prisoner with a fire inside longing for his family.
Nadia ran away the moment she was released from prison, not because
of the shame that will follow her, but because of what has happened to
Iraqi female prisoners that were abused, raped and tortured at the hands
of American mercenaries in Abu Ghraib prison, where the walls of the
prison speak the sad and horrifying stories of the prisoners, but what
Nadia tells us is not a “Story”…it is the “Truth".
Nadia began her story according to Al-Wassat new paper:
“I was visiting one of my relatives, and suddenly the American forces
attacked the home and started to inspect it. They found some light
weapons. So, they arrested all people in the home including me. I tried
to explain to the interpreter, who was accompanying the American patrol,
that I am just a visitor. However, my trials failed. I cried, begged
them, and I lost consciousness from fear when they took me to Abu Ghraib
prison.
Nadia continues “they put me alone in a dark and dirty prison cell. I
expected that I will be released soon, especially when the investigation
proved that I hadn’t committed a crime”
Nadia elaborated while tears poured down her cheek, a telling sign of just how much she has suffered.
“The first day was so burdensome. The cell was malodorous, humid and
dark, and this condition increased the fear inside me more and more. The
laughs of the soldier outside the cell made me even more scared. I was
afraid of what would happen to me. For the first time I felt that I was
in a difficult gridlock and that I had entered an unknown world that I
would not get out of.
In the middle of these different feelings, I heard a voice for an
American soldier woman who was speaking in an Arabic language. She said
to me: “I didn’t imagine that the weapons’ traders in Iraq are women.”
When I started to explain to her the circumstances of the situation, she
beat me cruelly. I cried and shouted “By Allah! I am oppressed, By
Allah! I am oppressed”
The soldier showered me with insults in a way that I have never thought
possible or that I would ever be subjected to under any circumstances.
Then, she started to deride me saying that she was monitoring me all the
day via the satellite, and that they can track their enemies even
inside their own bedrooms by American technology.
Then she laughed and said: “I was watching you when you were making love
with your husband.” I replied in a confused voice “But I am not
married”.
She beat me for more than one an hour and she forced me to drink a glass
of water, and I knew later that they put a drug in it. I regained my
consciousness after two days to find myself naked. I knew immediately
that I have lost something that all the laws in the earth will not be
able to return it to me once again. I had been raped. A hysterical fit
attacked me and I started to hit my head violently against the walls
till more than five American soldiers head by that soldier women entered
the cell and started to beat me, and they raped me alternately while
they laughing and listening to a loud music.
Day by day the scenario of raping me was repeated. And every day they invent new ways that are crueler than the prior ways.”
She went on describing the horrible acts of the American criminals:
“After about one month, a Negro soldier entered my cell and threw me two
pieces of American military clothes. He said in weak Arabic language to
wear them. After he put a black bag on my head, he led me to a public
toilet where there are pipes for cold and hot water and he asked me to
bathe. He then closed the door and left.
I was so exhausted and feeling pain, and despite the tremendous number
of the bruises in my body, I poured out some water on my body. Before I
finish my bath, the Negro soldier came in. I frightened, and I hit him
in the face with the water bowl. His reaction was so tough. He raped me
cruelly and spit on my face, then he left and returned with two soldiers
who returned me to the cell.
The treatment continued that way, to the extent that sometimes I was
raped ten times in a day, the matter which affected my health
negatively.”
Nadia continued in revealing the American horrible actions made against the Iraqi women, saying:
“After more than 4 months, a woman soldier woman came, and I concluded
from her conversation with other soldiers that her name is Mary. She
said to me “now you have a golden opportunity, since an officer who has a
high position will visit us today, if you deal with him positively, you
would be released, especially because we are sure you are innocent.”
I replied, “If you are sure of I am innocent, why you don’t release me?”
She screamed in nervousness, “The only way that guarantees your releasing is to be positive with them.”
She took me to the public toilets, and she supervised my bath while she
was holding a thick stick, hitting me by it if I didn’t perform her
orders. Then, she gave me makeup, and warned me not to cry and ruin my
makeup. Then she took me to an empty small room where there was nothing
but a cover on the floor, and after one an hour she came accompanied
with four soldiers who was holding cameras. She took off her clothes and
she harassed me as if she was a man. The soldiers were laughing and
listening to a noisy music, and taking photographs to me in all poses,
and they were emphasizing on my face. The woman asked me to smile
otherwise she is going to kill me, and she took a gun from one of her
colleagues and fired four bullets near my head, and swore that the fifth
bullet will be fired in my head.
After that, the four soldiers raped me alternately the matter which made
me lose my consciousness. When I regained the consciousness I found
myself in the cell and the traces of their teeth, nails and cigarettes
are in everywhere in my body.”
stopped narrating her tragedy to wipe her tears, then she
continued: “After one day Mary came and told me that I was cooperative,
and I will be released but after I watch the film that they have shot. I
was in pain when I saw the film, and she (Mary) said: “you have been
created for the sole purpose for us to enjoy”. At the moment I became
very anger and I attacked her although I was afraid of her reaction, and
I would kill her except for the interfering of the soldiers. When the
soldiers released me she showered me with hitting, then they left me.
After this incident, nobody harassed me for more then one month; I spent
that period in the praying and invocation to Allah, the All-Mighty who
has all power, to help me.
Mary came with some soldiers who gave me the clothes that I was wearing
when they arrested me and took me to an American car. Then they threw me
on the highway road after giving me 10,000 Iraqi Dinars.
I went to a home that was near the place where I have been thrown out
and since I know the reaction of my family, I preferred to visit one of
my relatives to let them know what happened after my absence. I knew
that my brother had held a consolation board for me for more than 4
months, and they considered me as a dead person.
I understand the knife of shame is waiting for me. So, I went to Baghdad
where I found a good family who lodged me, and I worked with this
family as a maid and governess for their children.
Nadia wonders in pain, regret and bitterness:
“Who will quench my thirst? Who will return my virginity? What is the
offense of my family and kin? I have inside me a baby, and I don’t know
who his father is.”
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End of Nadia's story
Now
you have the right to know where she is, my answer is...she chose to be
one of the Mujahidat...as a suicide bombers who blew herself up on a
U.S. patrol in Abu Ghraib where they raped her.
There is no doubt that the US has committed war crimes in Iraq of
unspeakable horror. The fact is that what occurred at the Abu Ghraib
prison have not been isolated incidents. Similar cases have occurred
throughout Iraq.
One of many cases occurred in Mahmudiya in March of
2006 when a 14 year old girl was gang raped after her parents and her 5
year old sister were massacred by drunk US occupation soldiers. The
soldiers entered the young girl's home and forced her father Abeer
Qassim al-Janabi, her mother Qassim Hamza and her sister Hadeel Qassim
Hamza to an adjoining room. One soldier shot her parents and sister in
the head and then all proceeded to repeatedly rape her. After raping
her, the US soldiers poured kerosene on her and burned her to death.
These rape and killings are among the most heinous in a series of cases
by the US occupiers that have tarnished the American military.
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