This month marks 20 years since the publication of photos of mistreated prisoners in Abu Ghraib. John Sutter: Three survivors will finally have their day in US court in a lawsuit against a military contractor.
He says the plaintiffs seek to hold CACI responsible for creating the conditions that led to the torture. Sutter says the case has bounced around the courts since 2008, and CACi has tried about twenty times to have it dismissed."There is no doubt that the mistreatment was horrific. The plaintiffs cannot be clearly identified in any of those infamous images," he says. "The law, however, does not recognize guilt by association with AbuGhraib," Sutter adds. "It's time for justice to be done," says Sutter, "and it's time to put this case behind us" and move on. "This is not the end of the story. It's the beginning of a new chapter in the history of torture in the U.S.," he adds.