Charges
The US has charged 11 soldiers with prisoner abuse in Iraq. Many of the cases relate to the Abu Ghraib scandal.
Simultaneously, the US legal system continued to clear hurdles which had begun to restrict the use of Guantanamo for indefinite, secret trials and detentions of prisoners. The US has opened the way to try any Gitmo prisoners with War Crimes.
The AntiCentenarian points out, for the sheer sake of irony, that the US refuses to awknowledge and adhere to Geneva Convention standars for treatment of prisoners because they are not "prisoners of war," but rather detainees; yet they have cleared the way to try them, in secret, for War Crimes. One would assume that if one condition existed, than the other must as well...
Simultaneously, the US legal system continued to clear hurdles which had begun to restrict the use of Guantanamo for indefinite, secret trials and detentions of prisoners. The US has opened the way to try any Gitmo prisoners with War Crimes.
The AntiCentenarian points out, for the sheer sake of irony, that the US refuses to awknowledge and adhere to Geneva Convention standars for treatment of prisoners because they are not "prisoners of war," but rather detainees; yet they have cleared the way to try them, in secret, for War Crimes. One would assume that if one condition existed, than the other must as well...
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