Concentration camps in AD 2005

Five men who were juveniles when captured by US forces were held at Guantánamo Bay while they were under 18, despite statements by the Pentagon to the contrary, a lawyer who visited the prison has claimed. The US military has admitted in the past to holding three Afghan juveniles in a special camp called Iguana, but said it had released them. In a January 2004 BBC interview a Pentagon spokesperson said no juveniles were held at Guantánamo, where over 500 Muslim men are detained without charge or trial in conditions that have provoked worldwide concern. But British lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, who returned from visiting clients in Guantánamo last week, claims that at least five people held there were taken to the camp after being arrested, despite being under 18 at the time. One youth, 14 when detained in October 2001 in Pakistan, is still in US custody three-and-a-half years later.

Under-18s held at Guantánamo, says UK lawyer
by Vikram Dodd, The Guardian


Concentration camps in AD 2005. The Western civilization at its best. Hypocrisy and contempt for any human value, for life itself. We care for children so much to become completely obsessed about pedophilia when a celebrity is taken to trial. We are driven completely crazy by the media for any no-news story about this and that. We fill our mouths with morality and religion, hours of broadcasting with smiles and lies, rivers of ink to celebrate ourselves. Journalists, commentators, analysts, intellectuals and artists sing with one voice the greatness of the master who wants to save the world from poverty, famine and diseases. A beautiful affresco of a world that doesn’t exist…