Infamous Iraqi torture site Camp Honor remains open and detainees are still being sent to the facility, according to two officials with the Iraqi Justice Ministry who came forward with the information to Human Rights Watch.
The use of the facility, inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, continues in spite of official orders from the Justice Ministry to close the site. It has been operating both as a place to torture detainees and to hold them outside of the oversight of the already questionable Iraqi legal system.
Most of the detainees at the secret prison were said to be political detainees, Sunnis who were tied in some way with the Ba’ath Party or people who have participated in anti-government protests.
The Iraqi Human Rights Ministry denied the charges, saying that the claim was “politically motivated” and that the facility was closed at the start of 2011, despite repeated reports from officials since then of its continued use.
Has anyone who has been following developments in Iraq since the US invasion of that country ever heard the name Camp Horror, either famous or infamous? If you haven’t, this is where the trick comes from:
The US media as usual hides facts. What they refer to as the infamous Horror Camp may be none other than Abu Gharib Prison set up by the US torturers whose ghastly torture picture went on TV screens all over the world. Welcome to fawning corporate media. They erase history and make their own as they move along.
Is this supposed to be a surprise?