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The Sun Never Sets On Torture in American Military Prisons
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2011
by Matthew Clarke
by Matthew T. ClarkePLN has reported extensively on some of the issues surrounding the treatment of prisoners in the American military prisons which were set up to hold people suspected of committing or supporting terrorism. This ranges from the murder, torture and abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
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