Posted on 02/16/2006 5:42:15 AM PST by bill1952
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday faced mounting international calls to close its Guantanamo prison camp with U.N. investigators saying detainees there faced treatment amounting to torture.
In a 40-page report, which had been largely leaked, five United Nations special envoys said the United States was violating a host of human rights, including a ban on torture, arbitrary detention and the right to a fair trial.
The report is likely to fuel new Arab anger over the treatment of Iraqi inmates at Baghdad's U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison after Australian TV broadcast more images of abuse there.
"The United States government should close the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities without further delay," the human rights' rapporteurs declared.
Until that happened, the U.S. government should "refrain from any practice amounting to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," they added
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Of course the UN ignores torture on the rest of the island.
And don't forget that they specifically target civilians. Certainly that's not what a legal combatant would do!
Good point. That alone would make them War criminals, but I wouldn't trust the Hague tribunal to walk my dog, as far as prosecuting real criminals..
We can't afford to cut ourselves off from the international community. The UN stands for concensus and the international rule of law. If we don't comply we will find ourselves in big trouble down the line.
U.N stands for concensus? International rule of law?
you should tell this to the Darfur victims of the "killings carried out with genocide intent". Oh, sorry, you can't--because they are DEAD!!!!
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