The Children of Gitmo

Abdul Salam Ghetan

The UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas released today a study of the Guantanamo files recently made public by Wikileaks. The report can be found here:

In a nutshell, the report finds that military documents now in the public domain acknowledge that fifteen children were imprisoned, at some time or another, at Guantánamo. This is three more than the twelve the State Department acknowledged to the public after our earlier report on the subject, and seven more than the eight the State Department reported to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

In short, military documents recently wikileaked indicate that the number of children that have been imprisoned at Guantanamo is one-and-a-quarter times what the State Department has admitted to the public and almost twice as many as it reported to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

For the Documents - The Wikileaked Testimonies here

"Journey of Death" Rendition Logs here and other Reports here

Sent to those concerned and following the abuses of Gitmo prisoners

With best wishes,

Almerindo

Almerindo E. Ojeda, Director
Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas
University of California at Davis

http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu or GO here
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