Svendsen, Kent - short clip - IndoctrinatingNewSoldiers
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| - | During that time, I never had any report to me | 0:00 |
| by a guard or anybody else | 0:03 | |
| of any kind of abuse, mistreatment, | 0:05 | |
| human rights violations, anything like that, | 0:08 | |
| being, you know, being perpetrated against the detainees. | 0:10 | |
| I was part of the indoctrinating groups that gave | 0:15 | |
| new incoming service members, | 0:20 | |
| you know, tell them about what they're supposed to do, | 0:22 | |
| what they're not supposed to do. | 0:24 | |
| And part of that training | 0:25 | |
| that we gave to every soldier was this idea, | 0:27 | |
| that you refrain from your human rights abuse, | 0:31 | |
| you don't participate in it. | 0:34 | |
| If you have the authority to stop it, you stop it. | 0:36 | |
| If you don't, you simply remove yourself from the situation. | 0:38 | |
| It's considered an unlawful order, | 0:42 | |
| if you are ordered to participate in it | 0:43 | |
| and you're supposed to report it. | 0:45 | |
| So that's basically the training everyone received | 0:48 | |
| in terms of the guards. | 0:50 | |
| And so, speaking of the guards | 0:52 | |
| and their everyday interaction with the detainees, | 0:54 | |
| that's what they were supposed to do. | 0:58 | |
| That was their standard operating procedures. | 0:59 | |
| You know, we certainly wanted to prevent something happening | 1:01 | |
| from what happened in Abu Ghraib, you know? | 1:05 | |
| Which was an obvious example of, you know, | 1:08 | |
| people doing things that they weren't supposed to do. | 1:12 |
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