[Peace-discuss] FW: US Illegally Packs Gitmo to Spread Fear, Maintain Global Empire - Analysts - Sputnik International

[Boyle, Francis A]

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https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201805111064341904-usa-guantanamo-law-rights-violation/
Concentration Camp Aura

University of Illinois Professor of international Law Professor Francis Boyle told Sputnik the Guantanamo Bay facility remained a gross violation of human rights and international law as long as it was allowed to continue operating.

"Gitmo [Guantanamo] is a crypto-Nazi concentration camp... where prisoners are being held and tortured in violation of their basic rights under the Geneva Conventions and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," he said.



As of Wednesday, US authorities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will prohibit lawyers from bringing food to their imprisoned clients during meetings, purportedly to ensure food safety.
(c) AP Photo / Charles Dharapak

Prisoners Cleared to Leave Gitmo Face 'Potential Lifetime of Detention' Under Trump Boyle said the United States was a contracting party to those international agreements and that violations of the Geneva Conventions were war crimes.

"In the case of Gitmo where these war crimes are both widespread and systematic, it constitutes a Crime Against Humanity that in terms of severity verges upon the international crime of genocide perpetrated against its primarily Muslims of Color Prisoners," he said. "The Gitmo Kangaroo Courts are a joke and a fraud and part and parcel of the same violations of international criminal law mentioned above."

The level of violence authorized at Guantanamo was likely to escalate and eventually lead to authorizing the killing of suspects being held there, Boyle cautioned.

"In the event the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts sentences someone to death and that person is executed, Gitmo will become America's first Nazi death camp," he warned.