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A few essays on communism
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Regarding GITMO #95

Closed Bruhtm closed 4 years ago

Bruhtm commented 4 years ago

Since 2001, many enemy combatants have been held at the Guantanamo bay detention camp, a prison camp in Cuba in which suspected enemies are jailed indefinitely without trial. Several inmates have been severely tortured, leading much of the world to decry its existence as a human rights abuse.

I want to comment on this one. They gave them many human rights. It is regrettable that GTMO had a brief period of unauthorized detainee abuse, but those people were legally punished for it since then, however - conditions match, and in many cases exceed standards of typical prisons. Not to mention, conditions in confinement in GITMO are in conformity with Common Article 3 of The Geneva Conventions, Read here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2918343-Review-of-Department-Compliance-With-Presidents.html

You might have seen the other issues I had with this doc, I concede that the USA has done some unethical and haunting stuff. For a long time, I took at face value that the CIA did smuggle cocaine into the USA, and that the US-supported Pinochet and overthrew a democratically elected leader in Iran, etc. But when I bothered to go through many docs, I found out that this was not the case and that many false narratives went mainstream. I have no problem with this document and I find it very informative and interesting. However, I do have a problem with fake news. Cheers.