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Iraq's Child Prisoners
A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in jails such as Abu Ghraib. Witnesses claim that the detainees some as young as 10 are also being subjected to rape and torture
By Neil Mackay
It was early last October that Kasim Mehaddi Hilas says he witnessed the rape of a boy prisoner aged about 15 in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets, he said in a statement given to investigators probing prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib. Then, when I heard the screaming I climbed the door and I saw [the soldiers name is deleted] who was wearing a military uniform. Hilas, who was himself threatened with being sexually assaulted in Abu Graib, then describes in horrific detail how the soldier raped the little kid.
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