Road to Guantanamo The docudrama, the Road to Guantanamo, the 2006 film by Matt Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom provided a unique look at the complexities and difficulties of enforcing international cooperation. This thrilling tale of the now famous "Tipton Three" British men of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin who, through a combination of poor decision-making and violations of international law, allows the viewer to examine these modern problems using the war on terrorism as a means of telling the story. The purpose of this essay is to examine this film and highlight five separate violations of international cooperation using the articles of the Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a guide and authority of the discussion.

The first violation of international cooperation is evident at the beginning of the film. The film is taking place under the conditions at the beginning of the war on terror in 2001. The actions taken by the United States military and the actual bombing campaigns against Afghanistan violates the Geneva Convention, as innocent citizens are ruthlessly murdered by American jets not distinguishing between civilian and combatant as expressed in these powerful articles. This violation does give us the premise to analyze the argument with more examples. Because of this bombing raids, these three men on a private venture are taken away by force after surviving one of these attacks. Here the United States now commits various other violations of both the Geneva Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights explains and reinforces the inalienable rights of every living human. The 30 articles that explicitly give this document the...

This second example expresses the totality of war and all of its initiators as guilty of violating the very essence of this proposal. Understanding the premise to which these bombing raids are related to suggest that revenge and violence is an appropriate response to any form of coercion. The horrible events of September 11, 2011, and the eventual changes these events would propel, do not excuse the retaliation methods demonstrated then and now in any legal sense.
These three men, guilty of no crime, are eventually extradited to Guantanamo Bay Cuba to be held for questioning and punishment as an enemy combatant. In no shape or form are these men combatants and no one may have a legal authority claiming they are. Evidence was never presented as to why they were selected for this treatment, clearly violating many articles within the declaration, but specifically article 11 where due process and official charge are required to mandate such actions. An argument can be made that this violates article 8 as well. Article 8 states that everyone has the right to an effective tribunal, and in the methods demonstrated a Guantanamo Bay clearly do not resemble confidence or effectiveness.

The Geneva Convention articles were created at the end of World War II in order to remember the horrible crimes committed during this brutal campaign. Innocent lives were lost during this time by various ways including concentration camps and by nuclear weaponry. Generations of different ethnic groups were wiped out all around the world in different campaigns. It seems as though these lessons have been forgotten in this movie when its definition of…