At least a dozen American soldiers deployed in Afghanistan were recently accused of being part of a “kill team” that murdered civilians and took body parts  and photographs with the corpses.

Out of the 12 , five are allegedly responsible for murdering three different men and the seven others have been accused of keeping the murders under wraps and lying to the authorities about the murders.

The suspects of the murders are Calvin Gibbs, Andrew Holmes, Jeremy Mortlock, Michael Wagnon II and AdamWinfield. According to documents, the discussions of murdering Afghan civilians started a about a year ago when Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs transferred to the  forward operating base Ramrod and began planning with Jeremy Mortlock about Afghan killings.

In the following months,they both allegedly killed three civilians by shooting and or throwing grenades at them. The slayings came in light when a young recruit reported authorities later on.

Allegedly, Gibbs and Mortlock brutally beat up the young recruit for “snitching” about the members smoking stolen hashish and drinking alcohol on duty.

The soldier then reported the beating to the authorities as well as everything he knew about the “kill team.”

These abuses are not the first to have surfaced in recent years concerning the U.S. Army mistreating and abusing persons.

In fact, these are just extended examples of misconduct by American soldiers.

In 2004, the Abu Ghraib scandal horrified everyone across the nation on what members of the U.S. Army were really doing to the prisoners.

The question of how could the American army, under the pretense of liberating the people, possibly enact torture and abuse on these so-called prisoners.

These tortures and abuses varied, but most, if not all, are absolutely repulsive and inhumane, especially the explicit sexual abuse.

The list of tortures goes on.  Several photographs and videos depict naked prisoners, stacked upon each other or both women and men getting raped.

Prisoners were forced by the U.S. Army  to perform various sexual acts. Many were tethered by leashes when the soldiers were unable to obtain straitjackets.

The suspects were beaten, had chemicals poured on them, dragged across by ropes tied to their legs or genitalia.

The objective of torture is to humiliate and completely destroy a person’s morale and identity. But is this how Americans justify the 9/11 acts?

These alleged terrorists were taken in in effort to thwart plans of terrorism and to find weapons of mass destruction but has the U.S. been successful? Is torture an acceptable form of interrogation? Is killing civilians just for the heck of it tolerable?  Americans wondered why Iraqis and Afghans are so hostile to them and they finally have an answer.

There is an intense hate for Americans and Westerners for this very reason; they act hypocritically, claiming they will help liberate these poor, oppressed citizens but turn around and take photographs of soldiers smiling with naked, physically and mentally tortured prisoners and corpses with random body parts cut off for souvenirs.

These acts are disgusting and cannot be justified. There is no excuse, no reason, no value besides the sick pleasure these soldiers received from enacting torture and mercilessly killing innocents.

Why was there no government policy that prevented the brutal torment and agony on these prisoners? Torture is torture, it is not interrogation.

There is no gray area in this issue, no line between “acceptable interrogation techniques” and abuse.

One would think these attacks on civilians and unjustified torture would be stopped but no, even after six years after finding out about such acts, there are no restraints.

The U.S. Army needs to find better candidates for soldiers and actually enforce policies that obstruct torture.

The American people help in raising their voices against acts that go against the very morals of every sane human being and support a torture-free America.