Abu Ghraib survivors were forced to perform animality for their captors

Evidence

Survivors of Abu Ghraib testified to the inhumane treatment they were subjected to. Haider Al-Aboodi recalled how he and others were “forced to walk like dogs on our hands and knees. And we had to bark like a dog,” Kasim Hilas told of the rape of an Iraqi boy by a male soldier that was filmed by a female soldier, and as Nori Al-Yasseri testified, “They treated us like animals not humans.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 744

Categorization

• BMF: The detail of prisoners forced to bark like dogs and walk on all fours evokes the dehumanization-to-animality motif — not a clean match to any book in the library, but the theme of forced animal performance resonates with the hierarchy of beings in 2001’s ape-to-man framing, though the connection is thematic rather than cross-domain.