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June 06, 2005
Has Amnesty International 'Lost It'?
GeoPolitical Review, which offers insightful analysis on global affairs, analyzes Amnesty International's claims that the U.S. mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo is similar to a Gulag. A June 5, 2005 post centers on the fact that William Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, said on June 5, 2005 that, "Clearly this [Amnesty international in London comparing the U.S.' Guantanamo Bay prisoner of war camp to a Soviet Gulag] is not an exact or a literal analogy."
Specifically, Amnesty said:
The detention facility at Guantánamo Bay has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law. Trials by military commissions have made a mockery of justice and due process.Mr.Schulz said, according to a Reuters account of his appearance on Fox News Sunday:
... But there are some similarities. The United States is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons into which people are being literally disappeared ... And in some cases, at least, we know that they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed."GeoPoliticalReview concludes its analysis with this: " Whatever Amnesty once was, she lost it a long time ago."
"And whether the Americans like it or not, it does reflect how the more than 2 million Amnesty members in a hundred countries around the world and indeed the vast majority of those countries feel about the United States' detention policy.
Maybe, but U.S. officials still listen and react when Amnesty makes charges, whether correct or incorrect, against it. So do many other nations, organizations and individuals around the world. Some reports say Amnesty is refusing to back down from its "Gulag" comment. See "Amnesty International: 'It would be fascinating to find out. I have no idea'" for more." It's an interesting analysis.
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 6, 2005 07:08 AM
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