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May 18, 2005
Abu Ghraib's sentence
Sabrina Harman, the woman soldier who we saw in the horrifying photographies in the Abu Ghraib’s prison, while she was applying electrodes on hooded prisoner, has been sentenced to six months for torture. Just six months? The Italians newspapers are asking.
L’Unità, a historical journal from the Left, for a long time the principal voice of the Communist Party, has titled the article on the site web: “Tortures at Abu Ghraib’s prison just six months for the elettroshock’s woman soldier”. The article continue to adopt a guilty position: “The court has decided for her one of the lighter punishment for the Abu Ghraib’s abuse.: six months. Six months of punishment!Not mention that Harman has been also found guilty of antoher emblematic episode that well describes the climate of torture and abuse in the Abu Ghraib’s prison: the elettroshock of a hooded prisoner”.
Also Repubblica, the second most sold newspaper in Italy, politically form the Left, chose a guilty position titled: “Tortures at Abu Ghraib’s prison, just six months for the human pyramid’s woman soldier”. After saying that the punishment has been very light, the journal comments: “Harman risked a five and half year sentence: ten more than the penalty inflicted on her. The prosevcution asked for three years. Considering the time that she has already spent in prison, the woman soldier will be free before the end of summer”.
Also a traditional moderate newspaper like ‘Corriere della Sera’, the most popular in Italy, has also considered with more caution the punishment inflicted as inadequate: “Six months of prison. This is the sentence, wich is far from heavy that has been passed on the woman soldier Sabrina Harman”.
Finally, it is important to look at the position of Ansa, the most important Press Agency in Italy. If isn’t strange the approach hold by italian newspapers, and the confidence treating the news, it’s surprising that the Ansa take the same. “Tortures at Abu Ghraib, light judgment for Sabrina”. This is the title of the article, that continues to say: “The woman soldier Sabrina Harman, one of the ‘jailer’ of Abu Ghraib’s prison, has been sentenced to just six months of imprisonment…”.
From the Italian media emerges and an veiled judgment towards American military justice. It’s easy to presume that this attitude came from Calipari’s gate that has demonstrated how the USA are always ready to justify the actions and the mistakes of their soldiers. Who are sent to a certain defeat and are not prepared for uncontrollable wars, and have no fear of punishment.
Posted May 18, 2005 09:09 AM
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