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Dec. 10th, 2006 02:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccIt's World Human Rights Day.
I finished reading America's Disappeared[1] on the tram on the way home on Friday.
And I still managed to forget about the rally in support of releasing David Hicks yesterday. *sigh* I remembered it in the morning, then the smoke haze pushed it from my mind.
I didn't know Guantanamo was used as a detention camp for HIV positive refugees pre-the WTC attacks. Kind of like Nauru, but closer to the mainland and with an entire military base to lend support. I didn't know that US citizens had also been declared 'enemy combatants' and detained on military bases without trial - from John Walker Lindh's case I thought that was only the case for non-citizens.
When the hell did we start our own gulags? What the hell are 'enemy combatants' and how do they differ from, say, the VietCong? What happened to the people we sent back to the new, improved and vastly safer Iraq?
Too many questions.
[1] America's Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees and the "War on Terror", edited by Rachel Meeropol. Read it. It poses interesting questions.
I finished reading America's Disappeared[1] on the tram on the way home on Friday.
And I still managed to forget about the rally in support of releasing David Hicks yesterday. *sigh* I remembered it in the morning, then the smoke haze pushed it from my mind.
I didn't know Guantanamo was used as a detention camp for HIV positive refugees pre-the WTC attacks. Kind of like Nauru, but closer to the mainland and with an entire military base to lend support. I didn't know that US citizens had also been declared 'enemy combatants' and detained on military bases without trial - from John Walker Lindh's case I thought that was only the case for non-citizens.
When the hell did we start our own gulags? What the hell are 'enemy combatants' and how do they differ from, say, the VietCong? What happened to the people we sent back to the new, improved and vastly safer Iraq?
Too many questions.
[1] America's Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees and the "War on Terror", edited by Rachel Meeropol. Read it. It poses interesting questions.
