Shutting down the prison is a first step, not a last step. The U.S. must finally confront the nightmare it created.
In April, Patrick Hamilton, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross , made a site visit to Guantánamo and issued “reporter Carol Rosenberg pointed out, the ICRC’s 146th visit to the prison since it opened in January 2002. That shorturged American officials to address the deteriorating health of the prisoners there, concluding, “The planning for an aging population,” it concluded, “cannot afford to wait.
Hers was, of course, anything but the first U.N. report to address the sins of Guantánamo. In 2010, the U.N. Human Rights Council prepared a detailedon “global practices in relation to secret detention in the context of countering terrorism.” It focused on violations of international law carried out globally, often involving exceptionally cruel treatment and outright torture.
The interviews she conducted with those still imprisoned there were both confidential and unsupervised. She was allowed to deal with “military and civilian personnel, military commission personnel, and defense lawyers.” She also “interviewed victims, survivors, and families of victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, former detainees in countries of resettlement or repatriation, and human rights and humanitarian organizations.
Her report, however, also potentially shifts the never-ending discussion of Guantánamo to new ground.As a start, Ni Aoláin looks beyond policymaking to the more subtle forms of injustice and harm that became the daily essence of Guantánamo. She particularly focuses on what she calls the “arbitrariness” and the damage it has caused.
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