US policies blamed for Guantanamo suicides

[Judi Lynn]

US policies blamed for Guantanamo suicides
By David Morgan
36 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rights advocates on Monday blamed U.S. detention and interrogation policies for the suicides of three detainees at Guantanamo Bay and warned that conditions at the camp would drive more to kill themselves.

The deaths of two Saudi men and a Yemeni were predictable results of indefinite incarceration and interrogation techniques that amount to psychological torture, leading to extreme stress and mental illness, they said.

"The amount of psychological stress that is placed upon detainees cannot be underestimated. They are numb, depressed, desperate. Many of them are suffering extreme psychological effects," said Gitanjali Gutierrez, a lawyer with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents more than 170 of the around 460 Guantanamo inmates.

"The deaths this weekend were predictable and inevitable and the United States bears complete and utter responsibility for these deaths," she told a news conference.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060612/ts_nm/security_guantanamo_rights_dc

[bullimiami]

1. you think?

:sarcasm:


Pick them up, fly them halfway round the world to a radically different climate, cage them like animals for years, no lawyers, no charges, no court, no hope, no justice.
Hmmmmmmm......

[azurnoir]

2. Well General Barry McCaffrey

claims we're "victims" of asymmetrical warfare, or how dare those terra'ists embarrass us by killing themselves, proof positive they just don't value life like we do. Same goes for those 3 year olds in Haditha shooting themselves in the head, just to make the US look bad.:wt: :mad:

[schmuls]

3. yeah...how dare they pull a stunt like this?