• Footage shown at inquiry into detainee’s death
• UK troops in Basra ‘used illegal stress techniques’
- Richard Norton-Taylor
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 13 July 2009 21.59 BST
Soldier shouts abuse at Iraqi prisoners in video shown to Baha Mousa inquiry. Source: Press Association Link to this video
A British soldier screamed at hooded Iraqi prisoners, calling them “apes”, and others made Iraqis cry out in an “orchestrated choir” and forced one detainee to dance “in the style of Michael Jackson”, the public inquiry into the death in military custody of Baha Mousa heard today.
At its opening in London, the inquiry into the death of the hotel receptionist heard fresh evidence about how he and eight other civilians seized by British troops in Basra in September 2003 were abused by interrogation methods that had been condemned over decades by successive governments.
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