The United States of America usually resorts from now on to torture in their
war with terrorism. This practice, which was hitherto presented like marginal, is asserted
today by soldiers and the official ones of
the Bush administration. Whereas the High-police station with the Humans right
of UNO seized the Bush administration with three
recoveries on the fate of the prisoners of Guantanamo, Amnesty International worries about
the silence of the White House vis-a-vis the revelations of the press.
Various persons in charge do not hesitate any more to justify this practice. « is
neither immoral, nor illegal in theory, to have recourse to forms of torture not mortals
to save thousands of American lives innocentes », explains one of them.
« Voilà what one needs faire », writes another, by detailing the torments
which must be
inflicted with the « terroristes ».
The file of instruction of the
Bush mode
« making fun of the laws of the war, the United
States seeks the tragedy » By Flouting War Laws, U.S. Invite Tragedy
Los Angeles Times (the United States)
Erwin Chemerinsky is a professor of right and political sciences at the University
of South Carolina. It was
one of the plaintiff in the action at law on the fate of the prisoners of Guantanamo.
Sunday, Donald Rumsfeld called upon the International Conventions to condemn the
treatments inflicted to the American prisoners of war in Iraq and the use of civil as
human shields. As of the images of American prisoners diffused, it denounced a violation
of the Agreements of Geneva. The hypocrisy of Rumsfeld is enormous bus that made two years
that the Bush administration violates or is unaware of the international laws and treaties
in this field. As, even if we hope as the American soldiers will quickly return healthy
and safe, it is necessary for us to note that our attitude led Iraq and other nations to
be felt freer in their way of leading the wars and the treatment of their prisoners. Since
15 me S, 600 prisoners are held in Guantanamo and the government does not grant to them
the statute of « prisoners of war », but that - quite lower of
« combattants ennemis ». It is known from now on that individuals continue to
be imprisoned over there whereas they are not terrorist and do not hold any vital
information. Some have been with insulation for 15 month, without charge, access to a
lawyer or contact with outside. This treatment violates the human principles of bases and
25 prisoners already tried to commit suicide.
If Donald Rumsfeld be right raison to criticize the use of shield human, it be
difficult to call upon the law international when the war that one carry out be it even a
violation of this law. Our behavior has a cost great : the United States cannot hope
that the foreign nations treat our prisoners in agreement with the international law if we
same are unaware of it. |
