Secret detention of al-Qaeda suspects, CIA accused with the violation of rights

Unholy, illegal and inhuman are few of the words that promptly come to the mind on thoughts of the US led ‘War on Terror’. The so-called war hasn’t done anything more than plundering and destroying Afghanistan and Iraq, and pushed them into never-ending factional conflicts that have already devoured tens of thousands of innocent lives since America invaded them in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Thousands of Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects have been seized by the US troops, since their ‘War on Terror’, without being charged and even without the right to challenge their arrest in front of court or judicial body. Time and again different human rights groups and organizations have expressed their concerns and charged the US intelligence agencies with the violation of human rights on unlawful and inhuman arrest, abuse and torture of detainees in various illegal detention centers all over the world from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Peter Takirambudde, the executive director of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, asserted, We fear that many of the detainees will face mistreatment and possibly torture or execution in Ethiopian custody. We have previously documented that Ethiopian forces routinely engage in torture of criminal, political and military detainees. All parties to the armed conflict in Somalia must abide by international law. The US investigative agencies detains alleged terrorists secretly on unknown prisons, for they can be interrogated over a extensive duration and could not contest their detention in courts. On the other, the Pentagon and the CIA typically refuses to accept the charges of the violation of human rights and illegal detention of prisoners on foreign jails. Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman, said, While in custody of the foreign government, the FBI was granted limited access to interview certain individuals of interest. We do not support or participate in any system that illegally detains foreign fighters or terror suspects, including women and children. The Pentagon and the CIA may have claimed to act boldly and lawfully in their supposed ‘war on terror’, unlawful and ruthless detention of alleged prisoners in unknown confinements all over the world is simply a cold-blooded violation and abuse of rights that can’t in any case be let pass unchallenged.