One prisoner alleged that medical personnel monitored his blood oxygen levels while he was subjected to waterboarding...
Other prisoners said that as they stood shackled with their arms chained above their heads, a doctor regularly measured the swelling in their legs...
How is this not like: Mengele used Auschwitz as an opportunity to continue his research... using inmates for human experimentation.
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The report from the International Red Cross, its contents, are not a surprise to anyone here.
The report, written in 2007, was posted on the New York Review of Books website on Monday night by journalist Mark Danner, who has not said publicly how he obtained it.
What shocks and sickens me is this:
A previously undisclosed portion of the report concluded that medical workers who monitored or took part in the interrogations had violated their ethical duty to do no harm, preserve dignity and act in patients' best interest.
Seriously sickened by this.
I'm not a doctor, but I understand the Hippocratic Oath; do no harm.
Medical ethics and international law
It is generally accepted that medical torture fundamentally violates medical ethics, which all medical practitioners are expected to adhere to.
The medical crimes of human experimentation committed by the Nazis, as judged at the Nuremberg Trials, were war crimes. Atrociously so and for clear and obvious reasons.
And the perpetrators are not the only criminals. The Nuremberg Trials also made very clear that those who authorize or direct such torture are as responsible as the rest.
Contact Senator Leahy and tell him we need to get to the bottom of this so it never, ever, ever happens again.
Thanks.