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"They Laughed at Him and Kicked Him More" - Who Killed Baha Mousa?

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Thursday December 16, 2004 08:02author by Qnas

by Robert Fisk
The Independent [UK]
December 15, 2004

Baha Mousa, 26, was working as a hotel receptionist in Basra 14 months ago when British troops surrounded the building and arrested seven men. They were taken to a British base and were reportedly hooded and beaten. Two days later, Mousa was dead. His family was given $3,000 in compensation and rejected a further $5,000. What they wanted was justice. Yesterday, after more than a year of official stonewalling, his relatives won a 'historic' ruling to force the MoD to hold an independent inquiry. Will the truth now be known?

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