Did Malaysia Have A Hand In The CIA's Torture Programme?
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In this 6 December 2006 file photo, a detainee is escorted by military guards from his annual Admistrative Review Board hearing at the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Forcing detainees to stand on broken feet, causing another to become blind in one eye and waterboarding yet another nearly 200 times – the list of the CIA's brutal interrogation techniques in the wake of 9/11 goes on.
But perhaps what's even ghastlier than the details released by the US Senate Intelligence Committee is the possibility that Malaysia may have assisted the agency in its outsourced torture programme.
The damning report released by the US Senate Intelligence Committee was heavily redacted, with identities of the countries involved obscured.
However, a report by Open Society Justice Initiative in February 2013, titled "Globalising Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition", did name Malaysia as among the over 50 nations that had assisted the CIA in seizing and secretly handing over suspects for interrogation.
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Open Society Justice Initiative
The Open Society Justice Initiative also detailed the two suspects' ordeal: Fatima, who was four-and-a-half months pregnant at the time, was reportedly "chained to a wall and not fed for five days", while her husband was allegedly denied solid food for the first eleven days after his arrest, and made to undergo "seven days of prolonged stress standing in Afghanistan, and that he
had to defecate and urinate on himself while standing".
PKR youth chief Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said the report has ramifications for Malaysia.
"It would appear that (former Prime Minister) Dr Mahathir Mohamad's hysterical denunciations aside, Malaysia seems to have little or no qualms with collaborating with the US in such actions," he said.
"While stopping terror plots is paramount, Malaysia should not have compromised its moral integrity in this way".
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