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rfmcdonaldFrom The Globe and Mail:
This, to someone who simply lived in the same village as the attempted assassins; this, in only one village.
The witness said she was 16 at the time of the Dujail incident. She broke down and cried several times during her testimony, strongly suggesting that she had been raped although she did not say so outright.
When the judge later asked her about the “assault,” she said “I was beaten up and tortured by electrical shocks.”
However, she repeated that she had been ordered to undress.
“I begged them, but they hit with their pistols,” she said. “They made me put my legs up. There were five or more and they treated me like a banquet. Is that what happens to the virtuous woman that Saddam speaks about?”
The judge then advised her to stick to the facts.
She said she was thrown into a room with red walls and ceiling in an intelligence department building and that prisoners were given only bread and water to eat.
“I could not even eat because of the torture,” she said.
She said prisoners were later moved to Abu Ghraib prison where the torture continued.
This, to someone who simply lived in the same village as the attempted assassins; this, in only one village.
