http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B9EE5AE9-C2CA-464A-9A0E-DD721D6CDC72.htm
A UN investigator strongly suspects the CIA of using torture on inmates at Guantanamo Bay - suggesting many were not being prosecuted to keep the abuse from emerging at trial.
Martin Scheinin made the comments on Thursday after he visited the Cuban detention centre last week and attended a hearing of Osama bin Laden's former driver.
The special rapporteur on human rights said US officials had told him that of the roughly 300 detainees currently held at Guantanamo, 80 were expected to face military trials for suspected crimes.
your thoughts on this
2007-12-15 08:46:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Can't say i'm surprised after the waterboarding news.
They have a nerve since they campaigned for Germany and Japan to be charged with war crimes after World war 2 for the same thing.
2007-12-15 08:51:12 · answer #1 · answered by Agent Zero® 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think that UN investigator is probably right. If so then America is going to rue the day they ever started down such a misbegotten path. For they will have shown that when given the right motivation Americans too can engage in the same kind of barbaric acts for which they have long condemned such nations as Nazi Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, and North Korea. And for that matter such Muslim extremists as Osama bin Laden.
BTW, I suggest RyaN_C go away and read Article VI of the US constitution (I've supplied a URL below):
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and ALL TREATIES made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land..."
I've put the relevant part in caps. If the US has ratified the Geneva conventions then according to the US constitution those treaties are as much a part of US law as the statutes enacted by Congress and the constitution itself.
2007-12-17 13:06:52 · answer #2 · answered by Able Tasman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Torture is going on there and whilst there are probaly some genuine 'bad men' held there, a lot were captured by people in other countries for bounties paid by the US government. If the equivalent of 5 years wages (or more) for handing over a 'terrorist' is offered, a lot of people will find 'terrorists' to hand over. Just look at Nazi Germany where similar acts occured. I'm sure I'll be accused of being a leftie, or some such thing but I feel that if the US and Britain are not helping the war against terrorism by holding people prisoners in inhumane conditions with no trials and with barbaric methods used to gain information. How good can the information be anyway when it is obtained under duress?
2007-12-16 11:50:00 · answer #3 · answered by athenajm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no rely if torture is "un-American" is of little relevance yet quite that such torture or the different severe diploma to get suspected criminals to speak is in actuality ineffective. no longer purely do they no longer help in rooting out terror, they even have the different result. For such heavy-surpassed interrogators, it quite is no longer approximately getting the reality yet quite "listening to what they choose to hearken to." "i do no longer HATE the detainees. I despise what they stand for, and that i do no longer purely like the reality that they are in actuality mercenaries, yet hate is an exceedingly sturdy be conscious." that's the difficulty. lots of the detainees in question are purely ACCUSED of being "enemy combatants" or SUSPECTED of committing or supporting in terrorist acts.
2016-11-27 03:20:44 · answer #4 · answered by hamiton 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thoughts?
TORTURE IS HAPPENING CONSTANTLY
Physical & psychological.
If you need a scape goat to cover up for your lies then torture is a great way to get it. Time proven method.
'The geneva convention' is not law. For in battle there is no law.
The UN 'suspects' torture lol
Its a torture camp ran by the Cocaine Importing Agency (CIA)
Do they expect 3 meals a day and recreation facilities?
2007-12-15 08:57:30 · answer #5 · answered by Ryan C 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I watched a documentary called Gitmo directed by Erik Gandini on RTE a few weeks ago, absolutely riveting, I strongly urge you to watch it - it opened my eyes wide.
http://www.atmo.se/zino.aspx?articleID=14861
2007-12-15 09:09:00 · answer #6 · answered by Milking maid 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
UN suspects genocide in Darfur. And will do nothing about either.
2007-12-15 14:52:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cut and paste cut and paste cut and paste.What working man has time for all these newspapers.Takes me long enough to get through one,unless all your looking for is this day in day out.Do a crossword or something,have a break.
2007-12-15 09:11:57 · answer #8 · answered by cutes eye full. 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your a leftie Kamran and it really shows!
2007-12-15 08:53:37 · answer #9 · answered by Plato 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My heart bleeds.........for the people they're not blowing up whilst they're kept in there.
2007-12-15 08:58:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋