Guantánamo Is Closing...at a Snail's Pace / Karen Greenberg
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, I'm not. The war is is the war is moving. |
| 0:15.0 | I can |
| 0:16.0 | I can get our power. |
| 0:17.0 | I will be |
| 0:18.0 | what the The This is hell. |
| 0:40.0 | hell. This is hell and what the future is hell and what the future was supposed to be for those imprisoned at the Guantanamo |
| 0:54.7 | Detention Facility was the closure of the prison, the end of the detainee's |
| 0:59.4 | alleged abuse at Gitmo, the end of them being imprisoned at Guantanamo. |
| 1:06.3 | Four months after the attacks of 9-11, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp opened on January 11, 2002. This year marks its 21st year in operation, meaning that nobody |
| 1:19.7 | under 21 years old has known a world where the military of the United States of America |
| 1:25.3 | did not operate an offshore prison that has been condemned since its very opening by |
| 1:30.4 | organizations like Amnesty International Human Rights Watch, the Red Cross, the European |
| 1:36.1 | Union, and the Organization of American States over its indefinite detention of prisoners without trial, alleged |
| 1:44.8 | Geneva Conventions and Human Rights of violations, including torture. |
| 1:49.3 | The Center for Constitutional Rights also condemned what came to be known as Gitmo for violating the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. |
| 2:01.0 | Since its very beginning, the facility has been understood by law scholars within the |
| 2:05.1 | United States as unconstitutional and globally as inhumane and an offense to human rights norms. |
| 2:12.3 | Despite every president vowing to close it since its opening |
| 2:17.3 | that is every president except for President Trump who like 2012 Republican presidential nominee |
| 2:23.4 | Mitt Romney actually vowed to expand the prison prison |
| 2:27.6 | no president has actually succeeded in shutting down the site yet. |
| 2:33.0 | So why is it still in operation? |
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