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Happy birthday Gitmo
Taken from the Amnesty International website:
Amnesty International on Gitmo
Human Rights Watch on Gitmo
UN report on Gitmo (pdf)
Five years of blatant violations of basic human rights, torture, humiliation, ... And the worst part is that it is being carried out by the country that should give the example when it comes to freedom and democracy...
Winston Churchill once said: "A civilization is judged by how it treats its prisoners."
I'm deeply ashamed that we as citizens of "the Free West" are allowing this to happen... At least the Germans were able to say "Wir haben es nicht gewusst" when the concentration camps were discovered after WWII... What's our excuse?
The unlawful detention of "enemy combatants" at the US Naval Base at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba has now entered its fifth year. Hundreds of people of around 30 different nationalities remain held in effect in a legal black hole, many without access to any court, legal counsel or family visits.
Many of them allege they have been subjected to tortureor other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Three detainees have died at the camp, after apparently comitting suicide. Others have gone on prolonged hunger strikes, being kept alive only through painful force feeding measures.
Guant?namo Bay is a symbol of injustice and abuse.
It must be closed down.
Many of them allege they have been subjected to tortureor other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Three detainees have died at the camp, after apparently comitting suicide. Others have gone on prolonged hunger strikes, being kept alive only through painful force feeding measures.
Guant?namo Bay is a symbol of injustice and abuse.
It must be closed down.
Human Rights Watch on Gitmo
UN report on Gitmo (pdf)
Five years of blatant violations of basic human rights, torture, humiliation, ... And the worst part is that it is being carried out by the country that should give the example when it comes to freedom and democracy...
Winston Churchill once said: "A civilization is judged by how it treats its prisoners."
I'm deeply ashamed that we as citizens of "the Free West" are allowing this to happen... At least the Germans were able to say "Wir haben es nicht gewusst" when the concentration camps were discovered after WWII... What's our excuse?
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