USA Torture = Apartheid Security Police Torture

Sep 8, 2007 at 1:03 AM

This post refers to an article by John Yeld of the Cape Argus covering a paper in the Medical Journal "The Lancet".
The authors of the paper (subsequently signed by 260 medical professionals worldwide) conclude that the stance of the American medical establishment seems to be one of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".
The "Lancet Letter" is entitled
Biko to Guantanamo: 30 years of medical involvement in torture
David J Nicholl, Trefor Jenkins, Steven H Miles, William Hopkins, Adnan Siddiqui, Frank Boulton, on behalf of 260 other signatories
The Lancet - Vol. 370, Issue 9590, 8 September 2007, Page 823

The news report below, appears in full at the allAfrica.com website
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200709070644.html

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There are strong parallels between the treatment meted out to murdered Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko and detainees held in the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in the so called "war on terror", says a group of more than 260 doctors from around the world.
The group, which includes South Africans, has called for the US doctors involved in treating these prisoners especially those helping to force feed detainees on hunger strike by inserting tubes into their noses to be reported to their professional medical bodies for breaching internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
The doctors express their outrage in a letter that appears in today's edition of The Lancet, the prestigious independent medical journal published in Britain.
The 30th anniversary of Biko's death from severe head injuries is next week.

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Biko was savagely beaten by Port Elizabeth security police while being held in solitary confinement and driven naked in the back of a police Land Rover to Pretoria, where he died a lonely death in a police cell.