Shrub Watch
May 29, 2003
Guantanamo Bay Is Actually A "Death Camp"

The Shrub Administration is "floating" its plans to convert Guantanamo Bay into a 'Death Camp,' where prisoners are sentenced to death and executed, without ever being given a chance to defend themselves, on a regular basis.

Experts say that this has always been the plan.

I'm not sure what we can do about this yet guys, but be assured that it's on the radar and I'll be letting you know what action we can take to oppose this over the days and weeks to come.

US plans death camp
In the Courier Mail.


THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber.

Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday.

The plans were revealed by Major-General Geoffrey Miller, who is in charge of 680 suspects from 43 countries, including two Australians.

The suspects have been held at Camp Delta on Cuba without charge for 18 months.

General Miller said building a death row was one plan. Another was to have a permanent jail, with possibly an execution chamber.

The Mail on Sunday reported the move is seen as logical by the US, which has been attacked worldwide for breaching the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war since it established the camp at a naval base to hold alleged terrorists from Afghanistan.

But it has horrified human rights groups and lawyers representing detainees...

American law professor Jonathan Turley, who has led US civil rights group protests against the military tribunals planned to hear cases at Guantanamo Bay, said: "It is not surprising the authorities are building a death row because they have said they plan to try capital cases before these tribunals.

"This camp was created to execute people. The administration has no interest in long-term prison sentences for people it regards as hard-core terrorists."


Here is the full text of the article in case the link goes bad:

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6494000%255E401,00.html

US plans death camp

26may03

THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber.

Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday.

The plans were revealed by Major-General Geoffrey Miller, who is in charge of 680 suspects from 43 countries, including two Australians.

The suspects have been held at Camp Delta on Cuba without charge for 18 months.

General Miller said building a death row was one plan. Another was to have a permanent jail, with possibly an execution chamber.


The Mail on Sunday reported the move is seen as logical by the US, which has been attacked worldwide for breaching the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war since it established the camp at a naval base to hold alleged terrorists from Afghanistan.

But it has horrified human rights groups and lawyers representing detainees.

They see it as the clearest indication America has no intention of falling in line with internationally recognised justice.

The US has already said detainees would be tried by tribunals, without juries or appeals to a higher court. Detainees will be allowed only US lawyers.

British activist Stephen Jakobi, of Fair Trials Abroad, said: "The US is kicking and screaming against any pressure to conform with British or any other kind of international justice."

American law professor Jonathan Turley, who has led US civil rights group protests against the military tribunals planned to hear cases at Guantanamo Bay, said: "It is not surprising the authorities are building a death row because they have said they plan to try capital cases before these tribunals.

"This camp was created to execute people. The administration has no interest in long-term prison sentences for people it regards as hard-core terrorists."

Britain admitted it had been kept in the dark about the plans.

A Downing St spokesman said: "The US Government is well aware of the British Government's position on the death penalty."

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Comments

Kind of puts the Bush visit to Auschwitz in perspective now, doesn't it?

Posted by: silent@majority.com on June 1, 2003 10:15 PM

Hey Moron!

I hope the US executes all of those terrorist bastards. So what if Gitmo is a death camp? Who cares? Kill 'em all....let god sort them out!

Posted by: Bob Barker on September 6, 2003 12:03 PM

You're simply an uninformed, or ignorant IDIOT. Yes, General Miller indicated there were plans for building a more permanent structure which might include a "death row," as you wrote. HOWEVER, you twisted little bitch, a "death row" in a prison for condemned prisoners is far from running a Nazi Death Camp. This just goes to show how inept people like you are. You post the correct information from the interview and then twist it into your own little crusade WITHOUT merit. You are a whore for controversy, aren't you?

Posted by: Colonel Johnson on May 13, 2004 10:44 AM
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