Reply #13: 107 children [View All]

"Between January and May of this year, we registered a total of 107 children. Namely during 19 visits to 6 different places of detention. It must be stressed here, these are places of detention that are really controlled by the Coalition troops."

In the internment camp Um Qasr, and also in Abu Ghraib, the Red Cross registered prisons in their minority.

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According to UNICEF, no independent observers at all have been in the children's clink any more since December. The US Army did, it is true, open the scandal prison Abu Ghraib for a tour by journalists. But the reporters were presented with a model prison. The press were not shown captive children.

We stress: Four sources confirm independently of one another that the occupation troops are holding children as prisoners. Two witnesses even report of maltreatment. The human rights organisation Amnesty International is outraged about the reports on Iraqi children prisoners. Barbara Lochbihler of Amnesty International Germany demands consequences.