One of the most expensive prisons in the world, with each detainee costing $900,000 a year, is guantanamo prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. In early January 2002, the United States established a prison here to temporarily hold terror suspects caught in Afghanistan. There are not only cruel guards but also ferocious wolfhounds.
It is surrounded by the sea on three sides, the only exit is heavily guarded, and there is a tall separation wall, outside the wall is a dense bush, there were people who tried to escape from Guantanamo Prison, but did not escape to the wall, they were found by the guards, as long as the suspect resisted, he would be killed immediately.
Guantanamo Prison is like the New York Dungeon 300 years ago, in 1741, New York was a British colony, when the contradiction between black and white people intensified, white people suspected that the city's slaves were plotting to destroy or occupy the city, to kill only one-fifth of the free whites, the local government sent army police to arrest more than 100 black slaves, except for 17 people were hanged, 13 people were burned, the rest were exiled to the Caribbean island.
The situation in Guantanamo prison is very bad, with torture, such as beatings, exposure to the sun, prohibition of sleep, etc., and even waterboarding of prisoners. The so-called waterboarding is to tie the suspect firmly to the sloping bench, raise the legs higher than the head, cover the head with clothes, continue to pour water into the prisoner's mouth and nose, let him feel like drowning, and then stop for a while, let the prisoner breathe a few breaths of air, and then continue to pour water.
There was an Algerian who was imprisoned in Guantanamo, he said, I was tortured by them, interrogated for six days and six nights without sleeping, I did not have a good piece of flesh on my body, the skin was open, the blood was flowing, and at the same time I was very tired, in order not to let me sleep, they forced me to maintain a painful posture, I did not want to remember this, it was a very painful experience. In order to obtain a confession, some prison guards stripped the suspects naked, forced them to obey with extreme heat or cold temperatures, used strong light to shake their eyes, even threatened their families, and even used ferocious wolf dogs in the process of interrogation.
Some suspects can't stand this and express their dissatisfaction with the U.S. government by committing suicide, attacking guards, and hunger strikes, and every day there are people dying in prisons, people crying, and people going crazy. Prison guards and the U.S. government turn a blind eye to this.
Not only was there a scandal of abuse at Guantanamo, but also at the U.S. military's Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where U.S. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld approved 16 new interrogation methods in December 2002 to "weigh heavily on the body and mind" through tough tactics. First, because the U.S. military has a long tradition of torturing prisoners, as well as in the Korean War and the Vietnam War; second, there is a sense of racial superiority and white cultural superiority, and there is serious racial discrimination, so it is not surprising that "there is a prison culture that tolerates violence."
Although the Guantanamo prison scandal is frequent, the U.S. government has no plans to close the prison, in fact, the closure of the prison is not troublesome, but a key issue is where the prisoners will be transferred, whether to be released, whether to transfer to the United States or to a third country, there is a great controversy in the United States. Although the United States has tried to transfer prisoners to third countries, few have received them. The timing of the closure of Guantanamo Prison is elusive.
Is the United States really a human rights defender? What do you think about that?
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