Cameroon tortures suspects at base used by U.S., French troops - Amnesty

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

JULY 19, 2017 / 7:10 PM / 43 MINUTES AGO

By Tim Cocks
4 MIN READ

DAKAR (Reuters) - Cameroonian forces have been torturing suspects in their campaign against Islamist group Boko Haram, with much of the torture happening at a base that has also been used by American and French troops, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Amnesty's report documented 101 cases of arbitrary arrest and torture by Cameroonian troops charged with fighting the insurgents between 2013 and 2017.

Some of the victims were tortured to death, it said.

The Nigerian militant group has been fighting for the past eight years to create a medieval Islamic caliphate around Lake Chad, where Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad meet. Boko Haram attacks have killed more than 20,000 people and displaced 2.7 million in the region, according to aid agency figures.

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[burrowowl]

1. Are we surprised that

the U$ of A and France are probably complicit? No!

[Igel]

3. Why "probably"?

Teacher caught having sex with girl, had done it dozens of times on campus in his room.

Do we assume that the principals and cafeteria workers were complicit?

1. Were the bases used at the same time as the torture took place?

2. Were the entirety of the bases open to US access?

3. Did US military folk actually know? If so, how high in the chain of command. Is the entire country being condemned because a GI heard about it and said nothing because he was threatened, or did Obama know about it?


(And define "torture." In culturally relevant, not Western imperialist, ways.)

Quick and easy thinking's quick and easy. That's why it's called "quick and easy thinking." If good thinking was easy, we'd have discovered nuclear fusion by 50 000 BC and would have long since have had our personal hyperspace transportation devices that would allow me to commute back and forth to work from my home on Europa to work on a planet in a galaxy far outside of the Local Group, stopping off at my kid's youth group meeting in the Andromeda galaxy on the way back.

[burrowowl]

4. I meant it sarcastically!

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R