In a particularly embarrassing case of US allies torturing detainees, a video leaked to the Turkish media shows fighters in Kurdish YPG uniforms torturing at least two captive Arabs during interrogation. The video is said to have been from the end of May, and in Mansura District, west of Raqqa.
The two shows the YPG forces kicking and stomping on the prisoners, demanding information about the location of ISIS fighters, as one of the detainees screams that he doesn’t know anything about it. Kurdish officials confirmed the authenticity of the video.
Exactly what that leads to is unclear, as the Kurdish “Self-Protection” body described the act as the torture of “one of the ISIS mercenaries,” but offered no detail of how they decided that’s what the detainees were, let alone why they only mentioned one torture when the video clearly shows two people getting stomped.
The Kurdish PYD, the political wing of the YPG, suggested it was an “individual act” and that they would be held responsible if they are identified. The US says they “don’t condone” the actions in the video, and suggested an investigation might take place through the Pentagon’s legal branch.
I’m waiting for a Trump tweet praising the Kurds. Maybe if they kill some family members, the Donald will have them come for an official visit. He might even be “honored”.
While torture may have gone on in other parts of the world the US and UK under the war criminal Blair introduced it into the west after it had been outlawed a few hundred years ago. I do believe America wants WW3 to be a war of annihilation, similar to the very brutal Nazi-Soviet conflict of the last war, and turning back to torture was a deliberate move towards this dehumanisation, not only of the other side’s soldiers but of their own. All sides are now at risk of terrible atrocities.
The US has a talent for, and is in the habit of teaching torture technics to its puppets. The Shah’s SAVAK was one such torturer.
Turkey’s done far worse. They used to routinely rape Kurdish girls back in the nineties. This is an isolated incident of pent up rage. It’s inexcusable but lets not forget who started this. The Kurds are the vengeful Serbs but the Turks are the terrorist KLA. The Kurds are the enraged Hutu but the Turks are the instigating Tutsi. The Kurds are the peasants behind the Khmer Rouge but the Turks are the metropolitan bourgeoisie who fattened themselves while the peasants hid from bombs in caves. By all means put the fire out but we can’t afford to forget who lit the first match. America has played both sides of this feud as they often due. An ideal world would have the Kurds and the Turks united against our evil empire. Sadly, we don’t live in an ideal world. In the world we live in part of me will always be a Kurd, a Serb, a Hutu and a Khmer peasant. Maybe it’s because I’m Irish. Maybe it’s because I’m queer. But I can’t stand anywhere else but with the underdog, the pariah, the odd man out. So arrest the torturers, push out the Americans and smash the state. The underdog must prevail. The underdog must take the high road. This has to stop. We can do better.
What you do to others you do to yourself. Sad.
Yeah, stomp them some more. Then burn them in cages and film it so the other headchoppers know what’s coming.