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S. The UN claim that the torture in these camps have reaches another level, the inmates are exposed to extreme temperatures and are fed through nasal tubes, the inmates are also exposed to extreme conditions produced by light and sound. The UN also claims that the prisoners have had mental break downs many a time and they are also denied the facility of contacting an outsider, this means that they can't even hire a lawyer for their rescue. AU.S. soldier was reported to have flushed the Koran, the holy book of Muslims in the toilet, this sparked off a protest but the same got wavered and nothing came out of it. The U.S. soldiers slam the heads of the prisoners against the cell; many more unimaginable things are done by the U.S. soldiers' day in and day out. "The U.S. says interrogations are yielding useful intelligence,...
presence in Guantanamo to be illegal and the Cuban-American Treaty to have been procured by the threat of force in violation of international law"
There have been enough proofs found which show that the U.S. soldiers have crossed all the limits and hence they must immediately pull out of Cuba, else the world is likely to witness another war.
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Guantanamo Bay. In BBC News. Retrieved on 8 December 2008 at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4720962.stm
De Zayas, Alfred. (2003.) www.law.ubc.caThe Status of Guantanamo Bay and the Status of the Detainees.
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Introduction The United States has leased 45 square miles of land and water at Guantanamo Bay from Cuba for more than a century. Commonly known as “Gitmo,” the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay has been the source of increasing calls for its closure as no longer necessary or appropriate in the 21st century. To determine the facts, this paper reviews the relevant literature concerning Guantanamo Bay to provide the background
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