Author: A. T. WILLIAMS
Title: A Very British Killing
Description: Jonathan Cape, 2012. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 298. On 15 September 2003 Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist, was killed by British Army troops in Iraq. He had been arrested the previous day in Basra and was taken to a military base for questioning. For forty-eight hours he and nine other innocent civilians had their heads encased in sandbags and their wrists bound by plastic handcuffs and had been kicked and punched with sustained cruelty. A succession of guards and casual army visitors took pleasure in beating the Iraqis, humiliating them, forcing them into stress positions in temperatures up to 50 degrees Centigrade, and watching them suffer in the dirty concrete building where they were held. Other soldiers, officers, medics, the padre, did not take part in the violence but they saw what was happening and did nothing to stop it. ISBN: 9780224096881. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780224096881
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Title: A Very British Killing
Description: Jonathan Cape, 2012. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 298. On 15 September 2003 Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist, was killed by British Army troops in Iraq. He had been arrested the previous day in Basra and was taken to a military base for questioning. For forty-eight hours he and nine other innocent civilians had their heads encased in sandbags and their wrists bound by plastic handcuffs and had been kicked and punched with sustained cruelty. A succession of guards and casual army visitors took pleasure in beating the Iraqis, humiliating them, forcing them into stress positions in temperatures up to 50 degrees Centigrade, and watching them suffer in the dirty concrete building where they were held. Other soldiers, officers, medics, the padre, did not take part in the violence but they saw what was happening and did nothing to stop it. ISBN: 9780224096881. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780224096881
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1718151
- Book number: 1718151
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