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National Geographic's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Roger Axe | 13.04.2005 13:42 | Animal Liberation | Repression | London | Oxford

Natonal Geographic magazine invites us all to share our thoughts on Guantanamo Bay on its website.

The National Geographic Magazine for April 2005 has an article on Guantanamo Bay. You can easily look at this in a newsagents, as it is only 3 double page photographs and 3 more pages of mixed text and photographs. If you buy it, you get a free map of the American Civil War, and articles about the newly discovered hobbit fossils from Indonesia, and about tsunamis.

They calmly tell us that their prisoners are enemy combatants not prisoners of war, and thus exempt from the Geneva Conventions, and that each cell measures 8ft by 8ft6ins (2.44 x 2.59 metres). There is a picture of an interrogation room showing the bolt on the floor to which the enemy combatant is shackled. Amusingly, we are told that marines "speak lock-jawed so Cuban soldiers watching them through binoculars cannot read their lips". And much more ....

I think it is only fair to say that this article is as critical as it reasonably can be, given the necessary co-operation of the American government and the readership of this American magazine. But YOU can have your say !

"Share your thoughts" on www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/0504

Comments must be suitable for family reading.

Roger Axe

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13.04.2005 14:42

You need to click on Forums.
But if you click on ZipUSA: Gitmo you get a generous part of the text to read.

Roger Axe


website seems wrong

14.04.2005 06:17

Could not see anything about Guantanamo on the page that came up after visiting that website... might be wrong?

one


Comments of detention in Guantanamo Prison

21.05.2005 16:02

The US government must charge these prisoners with a crime and then prosecute them according to international law OR let them go. It is morally wrong to keep these men in limbo. If we wish to keep to the moral high ground we need to behave in a just manner. To hold men with out charges or due process is like the old European civilizations that we escaped in the new world, or so we thought.
There is no excuse to act like the "new" barbarians as we defeat ourselves.

Marti Blackwell
mail e-mail: marti_traveldynamics@sbcglobal.net


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