“He said they would sometimes squeeze his testicles with parallel metallic rods. They also pierced his nails and buttocks with a sharp pin, with his hands and legs tied together with his head facing down,” she said The alleged torture was said to have left Mr Onyango permanently scarred, and bitterly antiBritish. “That was the time we realised that the British were actually not friends but, instead, enemies,” Mrs Onyango said. “My husband had worked so diligently for them, only to be arrested and detained.”
Mr Onyango full name was Hussein Onyango Obama, President-elect Obama’s paternal grandfather.
I wonder how that’s going to effect the supposed Special Relationship between the UK and the USA?
It’s not so much what must Obama think of the Brits but what he thinks of torture. Is he for or against it?
Well, Obama has criticized practices that he says amount to torturing detainees during interrogations and has promised to close Guantanamo during his campaign. So I’m still hopeful that that he might to something positive here.
There was also talk of a commission to investigate torture during the Bush years. Whether or not they make any arrests as a result, I suppose we’ll have to wait and see.