Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office, where many were routinely tortured until the country's Human Rights Ministry gained access to the facility, Iraqi officials say.
The bright side is that other parts of the government are exposing the crimes rather than helping to cover it up.
Any government can make mistakes or commit crimes, but it takes some level of rule of law to correct them.
