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...primitive-looking. I’m also interested in the hegemony of the photographers and filmmakers; they took on the role of imperialists coming into indigenous lands to represent people devoid of a personal or cultural history. I’ve also just had this flash about the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. These guys were hazed and forced to perform sex with each other; the photographs are shocking. And all of a sudden I realized that they’re wearing hula skirts and coconut bras. [The guards are] making this equation with being wild and primitive. It?...
England, Lynddie • unrepentant comparison by of Abu Ghraib abuse to what "happens at colleges and dorm rooms or whatever here in the U.S. all the time...
...days digging foxholes under a sweltering sun in full battle gear, his discomfort augmented by body armor and a Kevlar helmet. The late Sergeant Santos Cardona was sentenced to 90 days' hard labor at Fort Bragg, N.C., in 2006 for his involvement in prisoner mistreatment at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, where he worked as a dog handler. Though prisoners picked cotton and repaired railroads after the Civil War, restrictions imposed in the 1920s and '30s have curtailed prison labor. These days, prisoners' jobs are more likely to consist of making license plates or doing laundry. Not exactly fulfilling gigs...
...pictures of the aftershocks from the Abu Ghraib scandal...
...pictures of the aftershocks from the Abu Ghraib scandal...