HRW: US Will Not Provide Compensation to Iraqis

  Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated that the US government did not provide compensation to Iraqi citizens tortured by that country's troops. During the long war in Iraq, United States soldiers have killed many civilians and tortured many suspects without charge in prisons such as Abu Ghraib. Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its latest report Monday (25/9/2023) announced that documents from this organization and other international organizations show that there are many cases of human rights violations at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and other prisons under the United States government in this Arab country. "Despite documented evidence of torture, ill-treatment and violence against Iraqis by American forces, the United States refuses to provide compensation or assistance to Iraqi victims," HRW said in its latest report.

 "To date, the victims of violence have not received any compensation, despite evidence that American soldiers abused them," he stressed. The Human Rights Watch report also noted that after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the US and its allies detained approximately 100,000 Iraqis between 2003 and 2009. On March 20, 2003, George W. Bush, the then president of the United States ordered an attack on Iraq without the permission of the United Nations Security Council in a unilateral and illegal action with the involvement of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. After that, American and British troops launched a massive war that destroyed Iraq and killed thousands of people in this country.