Doctors at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib used their medical knowledge to help devise coercive interrogation methods for detainees including sleep deprivation, stress positions and other abuse, it was reported yesterday.
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine provides the most authoritative account so far that doctors were active participants in the abuse of prisoners in America’s “war on terror”.

“Clearly, the medical personnel who helped to develop and execute aggressive counter-resistance plans thereby breached the laws of war,” says the article, which is based on interviews with more than two dozen military personnel and recently released official documents. It adds: “The conclusion that doctors participated in torture is premature, but there is probable cause for suspecting it.”
guardian.co.uk

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