re: an open letter to the forum (fullguy)
So the US is innocent of torture and acting to prevent torture eh bimboy?
Edgegayehu Taye Torture survivor from Ethiopia who sued one of the alleged perpetrators in a U.S. court In 1993, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia made the following findings of fact in a civil action filed by Ethiopian torture victims against Kelbessa Negewo, a former Ethiopian government official. On January 6, 1978, plaintiff Abebe-Jiri was arrested again along with her 16-year-old sister Yesharge. She was taken to the same prison. At the prison in Subzone 10, she was interrogated and tortured in the presence of defendant Negewo and several other men
presence of defendant Negewo and several other men for a period of several hours. She was told to take off her clothes. Her arms and legs were then bound, and she was whipped with a wire on her legs and her back. She suffered severe pain. She was repeatedly threatened with death if she did not reveal the location of a gun. At all times, the interrogation and torture of plaintiff Abebe-Jiri was conducted in a humiliating and degrading manner. Defendant Negewo personally supervised at least some part of the interrogation and torture of plaintiff Abebe-Jiri. He also personally interrogated her and participated directly in some of the acts of torture of plaintiff Abebe-Jiri.
Based upon these findings, the District Court concluded that Kelbessa Negewo had committed acts of torture and other cruel,inhuman or degrading treatment. As a result, the Court awarded the plaintiffs compensatory and punitive damages in the amount of $1.5 million, which has not been collected. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) was purportedly notified of the District Court’s ruling. Notwithstanding, the INS approved Negewo’s pending application for naturalization and granted him U.S. citizenship.3 Mr. Negewo remains a U.S.citizen and currently resides in the United States. The case of Kelbessa Negewo is not unique. All too often, individuals who have committed torture or other human rights abuses in other countries have been allowed to enter and reside in the United States with impunity, in some cases even settling in the same communities as their victims.
