14.000 v pravnem vakumu

| 17. September 2006 | | Jure

Čez desetletja, ko se bodo vojne proti terorizmu lotili zgodovinarji, se bodo mnogi spraševali, kako je bilo mogoče prinašati svobodo na krilih masovnega kršenja človekovih pravic, kako je bilo mogoče demokracijo prodajati na krilih ukinitve prava za določene skupine, kako je bilo mogoče, da smo to prenašali in (vsaj eni) celo verjeli jezdecem protiterostistične sprege.

In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law…

Captured on battlefields, pulled from beds at midnight, grabbed off streets as suspected insurgents, tens of thousands now have passed through U.S. detention, the vast majority in Iraq.

Many say they were caught up in U.S. military sweeps, often interrogated around the clock, then released months or years later without apology, compensation or any word on why they were taken. Seventy to 90 percent of the Iraq detentions in 2003 were “mistakes,” U.S. officers once told the international Red Cross. Več

In še zgodba fotografa AP.

Prispevek Roberta Fiska o spremembi zaprisege ameriških vojakov. Tisto, ki je bila oblikovana po Vietnamu in naj bi preprečila ponovitev takratnih grozot, so nadomestili z novo, času in potrebam primernejšo.