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Shock at Guantanamo Bay
cobalt123 00:24h

I just found a news story off a design website I was visiting and am truely shocked shocked shocked at details coming out about the US treatment of detainees (what a euphemism!).

Here is a link to the Guardian story and then my comments further:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1000273,00.html

The bitterest betrayal

Among the 680 men imprisoned at Camp Delta, Cuba, are nine Britons. The US says they are hardcore terrorists, and holds them without charge. But where is the evidence? And why is our government so silent on their plight? By Tania Branigan and Vikram Dodd

Saturday July 19, 2003
The Guardian

Now for some of the worst news: there is now a "Camp Iguana" there for CHILDREN held as prisoners!!!! Here is what the Guardian story above includes on this chilling detail:

Guantanamo's newest and most notorious addition is Camp Iguana, which holds children whom the US regards as enemy combatants. It is less formidable than the adult version: the wire fence is just 12ft high and the all-night floodlights are softer. A 20ft long rectangle has been cut from the green canvas surrounding the camp, so that the children can see the Caribbean sea. "It adds a certain tranquillity to the environment," says Dave Wodushek, who runs Camp Iguana. He is saddened that people so young are held here: the four children, believed to be Afghans, are as young as 13. He blames those countries which use children as soldiers.

I am mortified at the extent my own government has gone to in order to "suppress" or "fight" terrorism. How can other countries but believe the US is using every evil tactic the US acused other governments of using? The secrecy is some of the worst: our imaginings can only allow that there are many possibilities that some of these people are innocent and now among "the disappeared". Isn't this what happened in Argentina and other South American countries?

Shocked, sickened, but no awe here...

  
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