Monday, 30 January 2006

US SOLDIER GUILTY OF AFGHAN ABUSE

Published in News Digest

By empty (1/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

A US soldier has been found guilty by a court martial in Kabul of assaulting prisoners in an American military base in Afghanistan\'s Uruzgan province. Sgt Kevin D Myricks was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to maltreat and two counts of maltreatment, a US military statement said. Myricks has been reduced in rank and sentenced to six months\' detention.
A US soldier has been found guilty by a court martial in Kabul of assaulting prisoners in an American military base in Afghanistan\'s Uruzgan province. Sgt Kevin D Myricks was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to maltreat and two counts of maltreatment, a US military statement said. Myricks has been reduced in rank and sentenced to six months\' detention. On Saturday, another soldier, James Hayes, was sent to four months in prison for the same incident of abuse. Human rights groups have often accused US forces of abusing Afghans held at detention centres in the country. The US military says the detainees did not require medical attention as a result of the assault last July. Myricks has been demoted to the rank of a private and he is being held in custody at Bagram airfield, the US led-coalition\'s headquarters in Afghanistan. He will be transferred to Kuwait soon to serve his six-month sentence. \"The court martial and subsequent punishment in this case reflects the seriousness with which this command views this incident,\" Maj Gen Jason Kamiya, the coalition\'s operational commander, said in a statement. \"Incidents of this nature are not reflective of the standards adhered to by this command. We are fully committed to investigating all allegations... and will hold accountable those who are found to have acted inappropriately.\" Myricks was assigned to Company C, 96th Engineer Battalion, when the incident took place last July. A third soldier is also facing \"non-judicial punishment for allegedly having knowledge of the abuse and not reporting it through the unit\'s chain of command\", the US military has said. At least eight prisoners have died in US custody since 2001. In September, a US military interrogator was sentenced to five months in prison for assaulting a detainee in Afghanistan who later died. Five other US soldiers have been convicted following the deaths of two prisoners at the military base at Bagram, outside Kabul, in 2002. (BBC)
Read 2032 times

Visit also

silkroad

AFPC

isdp

turkeyanalyst

Staff Publications

  

2410Starr-coverSilk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024. 

Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.

Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024. 

Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024. 

ChangingGeopolitics-cover2Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023. 

Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023. 

Screen Shot 2023-05-08 at 10.32.15 AM

Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.



 

The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.

Newsletter

Sign up for upcoming events, latest news and articles from the CACI Analyst

Newsletter