WikiLeaks cables reveal more juveniles detained at Guantanamo Bay than U.S. claimed

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Eric W. Dolan

An investigation of Detainee Assessment Briefs (DAB) and other classified documents published by WikiLeaks reveals that fifteen juveniles were detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, three more than the U.S. State Department publicly acknowledged.

The University of California Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas reported that the number of children imprisoned at Guantanamo is almost twice as many as it reported to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

"This new report shows that even more children have been imprisoned at Guantánamo than our earlier research revealed," said Almerindo Ojeda, director of the center and principal investigators for its Guantanamo Testimonials Project. "This is one more reason for a full, independent, and transparent inquiry into the policies and practices of detention we have engaged in since 9/11."

Thirteen of the juvenile detainees have been released, while another has been convicted of war crimes and another is reported to have committed suicide at the age of 21.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/07/wikileaks-cables-reveal-more-juveniles-detained-at-guantanamo-bay-than-u-s-claimed/

[Newest Reality]

1. While we are left to discern in empathetic and

mature ways about the crimes of youth versus adults, our predatory corporatism in league with the government it has annexed has a far different set of values, affixed somewhere there above and beyond the laws that we respect and that turn out to be the means to cement us into place where we can be trampled on without much more resistance than, "Can I have fries with that?"

Feeling represented?

[gratuitous]

2. Sorry, our new legal and ethical standard is "close enough"

If it makes people feel good, or if the facts can be hidden away, the American people don't care. Any righteous retribution taken against us for our lawlessness and oppression will be explained away as uncivilized brutes or terrorists who hate us for our freedom. And we'll wave our flags, send our sons and daughters off to kill and die for the red, white and blue, and set it all in motion again.

[ChrisBorg]

3. How old are they now. We have held people for nearly 10 years.

Near a third of their lives, at least.

[Bluebear]

4. 'As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject the Military Commissions Act and adhere to Geneva'

:rofl:

[sabrina 1]

5. Not only has he not kept those promises, he has allowed,

overseen the military trial of a tortured child soldier against International law which requires that child soldiers be treated humanely and rehabilitated.

We are a cruel and brutal nation.

Any nation that treats children they way those poor kids were treated, has lost its soul.

[RandomThoughts]

6. Something a person should never lose.

And something I will always have.

Although there is a trip wire set on that conversation dependent on how you see a certain comment. And no one can ever tell you that you don't have one, that is to try and get you to think you are lost when you are not. Seen that trap many times.


Another great comment "I pay it gladly", some tie a context to that comment. What is it really about. What Ghandi said, if you can't clean up the hard parts with gladness then you should not do it. Because you don't understand.


It is beautiful having a soul, and many soulful friends.



Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time
http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=407128

Dire Straits - Walk of Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CknuCTRAW_I

[sabrina 1]

7. Yes, I do think you will always have a soul, Random Thoughts.

:-)

Nice music, thank you for the links ~

[Javaman]

8. good thing weiners is all over the headlines...

otherwise people would know about this.

Do I really need to add the sarcasm thing?