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              Αριθμός νεαρών που κρατιέται αριθμό Πενταγώνου του Γκουαντανάμο σχεδόν στο δύο φορές επίσημο
Σάββατο, 22η Νοεμβρίου 2008
Από Andy Worthington | Καναδικός εθνικός Omar Khadr κρατιέται ακόμα στον κόλπο του Γκουαντανάμο. Κατηγορούμενο για τη δολοφονία, Khadr συλλήφθηκε στο Αφγανιστάν το 2002 όταν ήταν 15. Την Κυριακή, Πεντάγωνο που αναγνωρίζεται εκείνοι οι 12 νεαροί - εκείνοι κάτω από την ηλικία 18 τότε τα υποτιθέμενα εγκλήματά τους πραγματοποιήθηκαν - έχουν κρατηθεί στον κόλπο του Γκουαντανάμο (σε αντιδιαστολή με τον αριθμό οκτώ που υποβλήθηκε στα Η.Ε το Μάιο). Αλλά μια ΑΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΣΤΗ αρίθμηση ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ, που προέρχεται από τα αρχεία του Πενταγώνου, αποκαλύπτει ότι ο συνολικός αριθμός νεαρών που διοργανώνεται στο Γκουαντανάμο είναι τουλάχιστον 22 - σχεδόν ο διπλός επίσημος αριθμός Πενταγώνου. Στο α υποβολή στη 48$η σύνοδο της Επιτροπής των Η.Ε των δικαιωμάτων του παιδιού (PDF), το Πεντάγωνο υποστήριξε ότι είχε κρατήσει μόνο οκτώ νεαρούς κατά τη διάρκεια της ζωής της φυλακής κόλπων του Γκουαντανάμο. Αναγνώρισε ότι τρεις Αφγανοί κάτω από την ηλικία 16 απελευθερώθηκαν Ιανουαρίου 2004 (όπως αναφέρεται στους New York Times), δηλωμένος ότι άλλοι τρεις νεαροί επαναπατρίστηκαν μεταξύ 2004 και 2006 και υποστήριξαν ότι κρατούσε μόνο δύο φυλακισμένους που ήταν νεαροί κατά την διάρκεια της σύλληψής τους: ο Καναδός Omar Khadr και ο Αφγανός Mohamed Jawad, τα οποία είναι και οι δύο που αντιμετωπίζουν μια δοκιμή από τη στρατιωτική Επιτροπή. Η πολύς-επικριμένη Επιτροπή δημιουργήθηκε από το αμυντικό τμήμα ως τμήμα των «δοκιμών τρόμου» που συλλήφθηκαν αμέσως μετά τις επιθέσεις 9/11. Την προηγούμενη εβδομάδα, το κέντρο μελέτης των ανθρώπινων δικαιωμάτων στην Αμερική, βάσισε στο πανεπιστήμιο Καλιφόρνιας, παρουσίασε μια έκθεση να επισημάνει ότι, αντίθετα προς τους ισχυρισμούς του Πενταγώνου, τουλάχιστον 12 φυλακισμένοι ήταν νεαροί κατά την διάρκεια της σύλληψής τους. Η έκθεση σωστά δήλωσε ότι, εκτός από Omar Khadr και το Mohamed Jawad, Mohamed El-Gharani, σαουδικός εδρεύων ένας γεννημένος στους γονείς από το Τσαντ, φυλακίστηκε ακόμα. Ακριβώς 14 ετών όταν αρπάχτηκε Οκτωβρίου 2001, EL-Gharani είχε ταξιδεψει στο Πακιστάν στην τεχνολογία πληροφοριών μελέτης, αλλά είχε στρογγυλευτεί επάνω σε μια τυχαία επιδρομή σε ένα μουσουλμανικό τέμενος, εήταν βασανισμένου στην πακιστανική επιτήρηση και εήταν πραγματοποιημένου έπειτα στις ΗΠΑ. κράτηση, πρώτα στο Αφγανιστάν, και έπειτα στο Γκουαντανάμο. Η έκθεση επίσης βεβαίωσε ότι το Πεντάγωνο είχε ξεχάσει να περιλάβει το Γιασέρ Talal Al-Zahrani. Al-Zahrani, a Saudi national, was 17 when he was seized in Afghanistan, andwas one of three prisoners who died in Guantanamo (apparently by committing suicide) in June 2006. After the report was issued, the Pentagon acknowledged that it had revised its figure from eight to 12, and said it had provided a corrected submission to the United Nations. Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon claimed that the problems arose because many of the prisoners did not know their dates of birth. But as the director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas explained the Center’s report had drawn on the Pentagon’s own sources, specifically the list of all the prisoners held at Guantanamo from January 11, 2002 until May 15, 2006, which included their names, nationalities, and dates of birth. Close scrutiny of this list reveals that the Pentagon will need to revise its figures once more, as, by its own account, a total of 22 prisoners were juveniles at the time of capture. Moreover, contrary to the Pentagon’s account, five of these prisoners are still being held. This imprecision seems to reflect the Pentagon’s lack of concern for whether prisoners were juvenile at the time of capture. Under the terms of Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (on the involvement of children in armed conflict), the U.S. administration is required to promote “the physical and psychosocial rehabilitation and social reintegration of children who are victims of armed conflict,” but in May 2003, when the story first broke that juvenile prisoners were being held at Guantanamo, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a press conference, “This constant refrain of ‘the juveniles,’ as though there’s a hundred children in there — these are not children.” Although the three juveniles released in January 2004 were held separately from the adult population and given some educational and recreational opportunities, there is no evidence that the rest of the juveniles held at Guantanamo received any preferential treatment whatsoever. In many cases, they were subjected to the kind of chronic abuse that has earned Guantanamo (and the U.S. prisons in Afghanistan) a reputation as facilities where the use of torture was routine. The following is a list of the 22 juveniles held at Guantanamo: Including Omar Khadr, Mohamed Jawad and Mohammed El-Gharani, five prisoners who were juveniles at the time of capture are still being held at Guantanamo. The two not previously mentioned are:
In addition to the three juveniles released in January 2004 (Asadullah, Naqibullah and Mohammed Ismail), the following thirteen prisoners who were juveniles at the time of capture have also been released:
In addition, two other Pakistani juveniles — Khalil Rahman Hafez and Sultan Ahmad (both 17 at the time of capture) — were released without their stories being told, and the 22nd juvenile prisoner was Yasser Talal al-Zahrani. It remains plausible that the dates of birth of several other prisoners were recorded incorrectly by the Pentagon, and it should also be noted that Sami al-Haj, the al-Jazeera journalist released in May, told his lawyers at the legal action charity Reprieve that he believed that at least two dozen other prisoners were juveniles when they were seized. Hundreds of juvenile prisoners are still being held in Afghanistan and Iraq. In its submission to the UN in May, the Pentagon claimed that it had held “approximately 90″ in Afghanistan since 2002, and was currently holding “approximately ten,” and had held “approximately 2,400″ in Iraq since 2003, and was currently holding “approximately 500.” If Guantanamo is anything to go by, these figures may not be reliable at all. Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press). Have Your Say: Number of juveniles held at Guantanamo almost twice official Pentagon figure Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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