Rolling Stone magazine has released a video that reportedly shows American and Afghan soldiers torturing and interrogating a prisoner. The video was secured from Afghan social media pages, but was quickly removed. The Afghan soldiers are holding down the man who screams in Kandahari-accented Pashto. He yells “Oh my father” as he is whipped.
The soldiers in the video have yet to be individually identified, but are most likely U.S. Special Forces. The uniforms that they are wearing did not emerge until 2010. The Army has reportedly begun an investigation into the incident.
The main detention facilities in Afghanistan have been transferred to local control, but American military units can hold detainees for tactical questioning up to two weeks.
Some soldiers are defending the practice. “Unless you’ve been in combat and had people who want to shoot you in the face, you can’t understand what it’s like,” one special forces officer said. “There’s a reason that they say that war is hell. Because it is hell.”
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