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Comment piece: "The Iraq war was born and raised in torture"
6 July 2016 16:34 BST
Research director of UK advocacy group CAGE UK Asim Qureshi, calls on Chilcot to recognise "that Britain went to war in Iraq based on falsified information and tortured confessions."
In his comment piece for MEE Qureshi writes:
"The story of torture in relation to Iraq is important and complicated, as it not only justified the war, but permitted an environment where torture was normalised. The DNA of the Iraq war was constructed through a story of torture for which there still has been no accountability."
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