Geneva for GTMO
It is not about prisoners opf war, or about what the geneva Convention says, anymore that tihis is about war. Even though George Monbiot clearly identifies the grave sins of the USA on the treatment of prisoners, and the atrocities being committed under the guise of national security, it is clear this is about USA might and its thirst for expansion.
His prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, where 641 men (nine of whom are British citizens) are held, breaches no fewer than 15 articles of the third convention. The US government broke the first of these (article 13) as soon as the prisoners arrived, by displaying them, just as the Iraqis have done, on television. In this case, however, they were not encouraged to address the cameras. They were kneeling on the ground, hands tied behind their backs, wearing blacked-out goggles and ear phones. In breach of article 18, they had been stripped of their own clothes and deprived of their possessions. They were then interned in a penitentiary (against article 22), where they were denied proper mess facilities (26), canteens (28), religious premises (34), opportunities for physical exercise (38), access to the text of the convention (41), freedom to write to their families (70 and 71) and parcels of food and books (72).3
The USA has always been a lousy defender of human rights, when it employs its military to do the job.via Alejo