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Originally posted by rgr22j
Would you believe the International Red Cross? In January 2002, Urs Boegli, ....
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Well that was then.
Quoting from ICRC
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0...V?OpenDocument
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For the ICRC, the question of the legal status of the persons held at Guantanamo Bay and the legal framework applicable to them remains unresolved.
The ICRC's main concern today is that the US authorities have placed the internees in Guantanamo beyond the law. This means that, after more than eighteen months of captivity, the internees still have no idea about their fate, and no means of recourse through any legal mechanism.
Through its visits, the ICRC has been uniquely placed to witness the impact this uncertainty has had on the internees. It has observed a worrying deterioration in the psychological health of a large number of them. This has prompted the ICRC to ask the US authorities to institute a due legal process in accordance with the judicial guarantees stipulated by international humanitarian law. This process should formalize and clarify the fate of each and every individual in Guantanamo and put an end to the seemingly open-ended system of internment that currently exists.
The ICRC has also asked the US authorities to implement significant changes at Guantanamo Bay.
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If you are a POW you go home after the war has ended. With the US' clever definition of this "war against terror" the "war" maybe never ends. The prisoners can look forward to a lenghty stay.
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Especially in regards to war, the only rights any country is bound to uphold are the ones laid out in the Geneva Convention.
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Nope! All international law applies not only the geneva convention.
Anyway the US in in breach of the convention as it denies the prisoners their rightful status of prisoner of war as the ICRC has allready pointed out on numerous occasions.
The visits of the ICRC in Gitmo are only allowed by the US on a good will basis while according to the convention they are a must. US Governement says that Gitmo prisoners are not POW and therefore are not protected by the convention.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...020207-13.html
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In any case, the United States has by far the best record in the humane treatment of prisoners.
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You got proof or just voicing a feeling? Good food and a roof over the head doesn't mean it's a picnic out there. It's a detention camp where people are held ouside of the law. To me that sounds pretty inhumane.