Prisoners’ Rights
Should people in jail have rights? Well, the U.S. troops in charge of prisoners at Abu Ghraib did not think so.
“Your going to want to die but guess what I’m not going to let you!” said a U.S. troop. They were telling them this because they were about to torture these prisoners to the point where they would be begging to die.
“They are treating us like women: they tell us they want us to suffer like the women do,” said a prisoner of the jail Abu Ghraib. This is just the start if all the awful crimes committed not so long ago by our own U.S. troops. The troops would beat the prisoners to the ground, cover their heads and make the prisoners take all their clothes off. Then the troops took pictures and posted them on the web to humiliate them and publish it to the world.
Everything they did was awful but in a way I can’t blame them. Being in a war has to be the hardest thing ever and having the chance of revenge is all they could crave for what those people had done to our country. The only problem was they were getting revenge on the wrong people. Those people they tortured were not the ones who planed and flew those two planes in to the twin towers; they were in jail for other crimes.
Those people had all the human rights just like anyone else who may have not one thing on there criminal record. The soldiers had no right to commit the crime they did and then publicize it to the world, but it was their choice. What they did put a bad look on the U.S. for a while but people in the world also need to realize that is not haw all Americans are.
Although these crimes of torture were wrong in so many ways, if you were a woman and knew other women were being treated badly, what would you do to the men who were torturing them? There are a lot of sides to this issue and so many things to think about but overall what they did was wrong even with all the other factors.