Thread by @Spinozasrose

@kgmongan As always you are trying to distract from the crimes committed by British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by directing our gaze to the perennial suspect Jews: Israel.

"Allegations of the abusive treatment of Iraqi civilians detained by the British Army /1

@kgmongan have also swelled in recent years. During the British presence in Iraq from 2003 until 2009, thousands of people were arrested, detained and interrogated. And from these, there are now more than a thousand cases alleging mistreatment, /2

@kgmongan .... Witness testimony speaks of beatings, sexual assault and religious humiliation, sensory and food deprivation, cruel interrogation techniques. Many victims say they were detained in these conditions for years without any explanation"

newsweek.com/2014/12/26/bri…

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@kgmongan And more:

“Ireland has not ratified a protocol to prevent torture in places of detention” (Opinion, August 8th), highlights the Irish Government’s failure to comply with its duties to prevent torture.

While the Operational Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) /4

@kgmongan deals primarily with people detained in state prisons, the elephant-in-the-room with regard to Ireland is that the Irish Government was complicit in the US extraordinary rendition program whereby hundreds of prisoners were tortured." /5

irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…

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irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4008…

@kgmongan Ireland's glory is not all Lord of the Dance and cute Celtic arias. Apart its endemic anti-Semitic culture from nursery rhymes to condoling with Hitler, seems like the Irish excel in some very creative torture, in the long history of Irish decency. /7
spookyisles.com/torture-in-ire…

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