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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillai has urged the United States and Iraq to inquire into allegations of torture, prisoner-abuse and unlawful killings indicated in thousands of classified U.S. military documents leaked last Friday.
"The US and Iraqi authorities should take necessary measures to investigate all the allegations made in these reports and to bring to justice those responsible for unlawful killings, summary executions, torture and other serious human rights abuses," she said in a statement Tuesday.
She said the leaked "files reportedly indicate that the US knew, among other things, about the widespread use of torture and ill-treatment of detainees by Iraqi forces, and yet proceeded with the transfer of thousands of persons who had been detained by US forces to Iraqi custody between early 2009 and July 2010."
Yeah, I'm sure they'll get right on that U.N.