How Dare The US Condemn Iraq With POWs Still Denied Rights In Guantanamo

Monday March 24, 2003 06:14

by How Dare The US Condemn Iraq With POWs Still Denied Rights I

The US is trying to blame Iraq for showing prisoners on TV and yet no newspaper, TV station or web site has yet mentioned that the US is still violating the rights of hundreds of Afghan POWs.

New York, January 11, 2002) -- Human Rights Watch questioned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld´s statement today that captured fighters from Afghanistan shipped to Cuba were “unlawful combatants” not entitled to protection under the Geneva Conventions. Human Rights Watch also criticized the reported use of chain-link cages to confine the detainees.

“The Secretary seems unaware of the requirements of international humanitarian law,” said Jamie Fellner, director of Human Rights Watch´s U.S. Program. “As a party to the Geneva Conventions, the United States is required to treat every detained combatant humanely, including unlawful combatants. The United States may not pick and choose among them to decide who is entitled to decent treatment.”

News reports indicate that Taliban and al-Qaeda detainees will be confined at Guantanamo Bay in small cages with chain-link sides, concrete floors and metal roofs. The cages will offer scant shelter from wind and rain. Details about sanitary and hygiene facilities are not available.

http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/01/us011102.htm

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That's the first thing that struck me..

by David Rynne

Mon Mar 24, 2003 10:55

And the second thing for me to realise was that the vast majority of the (represented) American public will not reach that same conclusion.

It is also against the Geneva convention to carpet bomb civillian centers such as Baghdad and Kabul, Bush vowed last night to prosecute people who violate the geneva convention, well, he doesn't need to go do Baghdad to begin fulfilling that promise

Too right

by kokomero

Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:14

The US should shut up and put its own house in order in Guantanamo, and also stop using Israelis and Pakistanis among others to torture al-Quaeda POWs for them at arms length.

I wonder how many "turkey shoots" they've had or will have this time round? Theres plenty of room to hide corpses in the Iraqi desert and a willing media to cover up for them like last time.

in the last 24 hours Little Miss Sevilla has won the Miss Spain contest.

by iosaf links.

Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:53

and this story broke at
http://www.ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=37166&start=20
with lots of comments.

Little Miss Sevilla (Spain) will work on her high heels for peace, co-operation and mutual understanding.

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