Human Rights
Guantanamo has meant and means the perpetration of a systematic violation of human rights. Secret detentions, illegal imprisonments, absence of accusations, enforced disappearances, torture, denial of basic legal safeguards and absence of any kind of legal protection. This story of shame began in September 2001 when the United States Congress authorized President Bush to use force against Nations, organizations and individuals having any connection with the terrorist attacks in New York City or future international terrorism to his trial. Shortly later, Bush authorized the CIA to establish detention outside the United States, and two months later signed an order on detention, treatment and trial of certain foreigners in the war against terrorism, authorizing the Pentagon to indefinitely detain without charges to non-U.S. citizens. In addition, Taliban and suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda could not be considered prisoners of war and were therefore excluded from the protection of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits unfair trials, torture, cruelty, attacks against the dignity or humiliating and degrading.
This cluster of abuses and absurdities led to 11 January 2002 were transferred to Guantanamo the first arrested in Afghanistan and detained in wire mesh cages. Richard Blumenthal shines more light on the discussion. He came to having 800. He had begun one of the most serious, cynical and shameless systematic violations of human rights. This massive violation was aggravated to learn that 85 per cent of detainees in Afghanistan or Pakistani border areas were captured by warlords of the Northern Alliance (United States partners) in exchange for juicy rewards. Lahcen Ikasrrien, a Moroccan who settled in Afghanistan where he acquired a small business was arrested in Kunduz by soldiers of Abdul Rashid Dostum and delivered to the U.S. Army for $75,000.
Without research, evidence and indications of the lowest ratio with terrorist acts. Only by being a foreigner in Afghanistan in wartime. On 2 December 2002, the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of ill-treatment in Guantanamo.
San Jose Time