An anonymous UN source has said that Washington has finally made an acknowledgement of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. According to AFX News, the acknowledgment was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture.
"They are no longer trying to duck this, and have respected their obligation to inform the UN," the Committee member told AFP.
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Unfortunately, the report will not be made public until May 2006. And the justification laid forth by Washington in the report is the tired old argument that the detainees in the "war on terror" are classed as "enemy combatants", and therefore do not benefit from the POW status set out in the Geneva Conventions.
In other words, George W. Bush can just pin a label on you and then he can do whatever he wants with you - even if it violates international law and basic standards of decency.
Or they can just blame it on a few "bad apples". (Those "bad apples" really get around!)
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