More than 60 children have been held at Guantanamo Bay by the USA

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LONDON - More than 60 minors, some as young as 14, have been held as prisoners at the US detention facility for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a London-based human rights group claimed in a report published on Sunday.


Those detainees were under 18 when they were captured by US forces, and at least 10 of them still being held at Guantanamo were 14 or 15 when they were seized, held in solitary confinement, subject to repeated interrogation and allegedly tortured, the charity Reprieve was reported as saying.

Britain’s Independent on Sunday (IoS), which carried the allegations, suggested the charges could threaten the United States’ relationship with its closest ally in the “war on terror”, Britain.

“We would take a very, very dim view if it transpires that there were actually minors there,” it quoted a British government official as saying.

[Selatius]

1. Wouldn't this be considered a crime against humanity as well?

Imprisoning and torturing children? No right to trial? No right to even confront one's accusers?

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2. Would you fight a foreign superpower if your brother, cousin,

nephew were in a prison such as gitmo?? Just how would you react, would you become a terrahist?? :shrug:

[katinmn]

3. Oh no. Just when you think we've heard the worst

Up to 60 children at Gitmo?

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4. 7 children in the massacre. 60 children growing up on an island in

the Caribbean in cubicles; cubicles which at first were chicken wire and now are some form of metal containers, like shipping containers.

For most of us, our ancestry is of swarms of people populating this land and working hard, ending up making it a great power.

The power has been misused.

Because we gave our power to the wrong people - the wealthy who disabused it all. The wealthy who found politicians to do the work for them.

Control the world and gather up more riches.

Children mean nothing to the PNAC criminals who the wealthy cut a contract with.

How many were in Fallujah?
Hom many have been bombed?
How many are orphans?
How many were used as bombs?
How many of the survivors will own their heritage?

What kind of good is coming from our cruelty and insanity?