Posted on 02/12/2006 7:27:29 PM PST by jmc1969
A United Nations inquiry has called for the immediate closure of America's Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees.
The UN Human Rights Commission report, due to be published this week, concludes that Washington should put the 520 detainees on trial or release them.
It calls for the United States to halt all "practices amounting to torture", including the force-feeding of inmates who go on hunger strike.
The report wants the Bush administration to ensure that all allegations of torture are investigated by US criminal courts, and that "all perpetrators up to the highest level of military and political command are brought to justice".
It does not specify who it means by "political command" but logically this would include President George W Bush.
The demands are contained in the final report of the commission's working group on arbitrary detention, which will be presented at its Geneva headquarters in the next few days. A copy of the report has been obtained exclusively by The Daily Telegraph.
The report is bound to intensify the already strained relations between the US and the UN over the Iraq war.
Washington officials yesterday denounced it as "a hatchet job" when informed of the contents by this newspaper.
"This shows precisely what is wrong with the United Nations today," said a senior official. "These people are supposed to be undertaking a serious investigation of the facts relating to Guantanamo.
"Instead, they deliver a report with a bunch of old allegations from lawyers representing released detainees that are so generalised that you cannot even tell what they are talking about.
"When the UN produces an unprofessional hatchet job like this it discredits the whole organisation."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The U.N. is a totally dysfunctional farce. When it wasn't perpetrating the biggest financial swindle in history (Oil-for-Food) its pedophiliacs were assaulting children in Africa. Kofi's son was caught in his illegal tax scam when he used his father's name to buy his Mercedes. As John Bolton has pointed out it's members include the worst dictators and tyrannical governments that presume to lecture democratic member states on rights they routinely violate. By the way, who's heading the current Human Rights Commission? Zimbabwe? Syria? Libya? N.Korea? I get all of these member states with humanitarian concerns mixed up.
Tomorrow's headline: "Guantanamo inquiry demands immediate closure of U.N."
.... for now, get outta our face you POS!
UN: Close Gitmo as soon as possible!
Americans: Alright, alright! For one condition; you will also close your offices in America and transfer somewhere else... ah in Cuba!
UN: Ehhh... i was just kidding!
Zarqawi was elected the new head of the UN Human Rights Commission by an overwelming vote.
France believe the election of Zarqawi will bring about a new era in human rights.
"Yes, the Iraqis are hungry but don't bother me while I count my share of the Oil-for-Food cash. Hahaaa - Oooo! What a scam! I happy! Kojo - how's that Mercedes? Haa! Hoo hoo! Me love this job!!"
yep, and right they are. Zarqawis first act was to immediately suspend all human rights for infidels.
Yep, we ought to just release all the prisoners off the island and let them swim (with the sharks of course)!
Yep, really got their priorities in order.
KOFI ANNAN CAN GO F$CK HIMSELF.
I demand that the UN immediately leave their cushy New York HQ and relocate to a country more in keeping with their political leanings. Yemen, perhaps, or Zimbabwe.
Iran
The U. f-ing N.? Is that the U.N. that put the dictator of Libya on the human rights commission? THAT U.N.? UNhinged, UNbelievable, UNholy, UNreal, UNprepossessing U.N.? It's time to UNdo the U.N.!
I demand the closure of the UN.
Signed,
Average American
A new era in human rights - WOW! How can it be doubted if France says so? The excitment is killing me! And the "overwhelming vote" must surely include some terrorist despotisms - what a consensus! Are you,too, as thrilled as I am by this tectonic shift towards the expansion of human rights? A new world order!
Yeah? Or what?
Another milestone of righteousness from the U.N.
Defending the rights of prisoners arbitrarily held for decades without trial, and dying by the tens of thousands.
Whatever would we do without the UN?
The Soviet Union
North Korea
China
Cuba
Viet Nam
Cambodia
All fixed by the UN?
< /sarcasm >
Amen, brother.
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