🛑 Biden may believe that drone strikes contribute to justice and peace, but the effects of these atrocities on the wider world cannot be calculated.
On October 29 a Guantanamo Bay prisoner was reported as having testified about the torture inflicted on him over many years in CIA “black sites” and the U.S. military base in Cuba where among other things he was “suspended naked from a ceiling beam for long periods, doused repeatedly with ice water to keep him awake for days. He described having his head held under water to the point of near drowning, only to have water poured into his nose and mouth when the interrogators let him up. He was beaten, given forced enemas, sexually assaulted and starved…”
A week earlier, on United Nations Day, the Biden White House announced that the United States is committed “to the original vision and values enshrined in the United Nations Charter” which involved “creating a rules-based international order” and ensuring “adherence to international law.” The declaration was made two months after a U.S. drone strike in Kabul killed ten civilians, including seven children. As the International Red Cross points out, the “arbitrary deprivation of the right to life” includes “unlawful killing in the conduct of hostilities, i.e., the killing of civilians and persons hors de combat not in the power of a party to the conflict not justified under the rules on the conduct of hostilities.” Consequently, according to Washington’s “rules-based international order”, it is unlawful to kill civilians.
But all the Pentagon has done about the Kabul kid-killing is to eventually and with reluctance admit that it did indeed slaughter an innocent man and many of his family — and it is most unlikely that anything would have been divulged if it hadn’t been for the work of the New York Times, which smelled a rat.
All that has happened, however, is that the Pentagon is wriggling round saying it is sorry and will throw money at the problem.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/11/02/washington-breaks-international-law-with-impunity-but-forgets-blowback-factor/
#HumanRights #Afghanistan #Guantanamo #UnitedStates #WarCrimes
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On October 29 a Guantanamo Bay prisoner was reported as having testified about the torture inflicted on him over many years in CIA “black sites” and the U.S. military base in Cuba where among other things he was “suspended naked from a ceiling beam for long periods, doused repeatedly with ice water to keep him awake for days. He described having his head held under water to the point of near drowning, only to have water poured into his nose and mouth when the interrogators let him up. He was beaten, given forced enemas, sexually assaulted and starved…”
A week earlier, on United Nations Day, the Biden White House announced that the United States is committed “to the original vision and values enshrined in the United Nations Charter” which involved “creating a rules-based international order” and ensuring “adherence to international law.” The declaration was made two months after a U.S. drone strike in Kabul killed ten civilians, including seven children. As the International Red Cross points out, the “arbitrary deprivation of the right to life” includes “unlawful killing in the conduct of hostilities, i.e., the killing of civilians and persons hors de combat not in the power of a party to the conflict not justified under the rules on the conduct of hostilities.” Consequently, according to Washington’s “rules-based international order”, it is unlawful to kill civilians.
But all the Pentagon has done about the Kabul kid-killing is to eventually and with reluctance admit that it did indeed slaughter an innocent man and many of his family — and it is most unlikely that anything would have been divulged if it hadn’t been for the work of the New York Times, which smelled a rat.
All that has happened, however, is that the Pentagon is wriggling round saying it is sorry and will throw money at the problem.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/11/02/washington-breaks-international-law-with-impunity-but-forgets-blowback-factor/
#HumanRights #Afghanistan #Guantanamo #UnitedStates #WarCrimes
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Washington Breaks International Law With Impunity but Forgets the Blowback Factor
Biden may believe that drone strikes contribute to justice and peace, but the effects of these atrocities on the wider world cannot be calculated. On…
⛓ While the immediate implications of Guantanamo with regard to the U.S. violations at the base are of paramount importance, the focus on this relic of the U.S. war on terror must not be dissociated from Guantanamo’s earlier history.
Read more by Ramona Wadi👇
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/01/18/guantanamo-territory-should-be-returned-to-cuba/
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Read more by Ramona Wadi👇
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/01/18/guantanamo-territory-should-be-returned-to-cuba/
#Cuba #Guantanamo
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Strategic Culture Foundation
Guantanamo Territory Should Be Returned to Cuba
While the immediate implications of Guantanamo with regard to the U.S. violations at the base are of paramount importance, the focus on this relic of…