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Prisoners
of the Red ArmyMOSCOW – Some of the most interesting artifacts of the Soviet Union in Russia are the holidays that continue to be celebrated, almost two decades after the fall of communism.
Those criteria must include the parties’ willingness to allow humanitarian aid to flow to all Syrian civilians under their control and an end to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including systematic targeting of medical personnel, starvation of populations under siege, and executions of war
prisoners.
In each country, I presented lists of political
prisoners
and asked about their fates.
Prisoners
of the American DreamCAMBRIDGE – Given worsening economic inequality in the United States, many observers might assume that Americans would want to reduce income differences by instituting a more progressive tax system.
Masses of Chinese were sent to work camps, where
prisoners
endured harsh physical labor to “reform” their “bourgeois” habits and thoughts.
Such a dialogue would have focused on pushing Venezuela’s regime to comply with the commitments mediated by the Vatican last autumn, including holding free and fair elections this year, releasing political prisoners, restoring the National Assembly’s constitutional powers, and accepting humanitarian assistance.
Already, individual OAS member states have imposed targeted sanctions on officials affiliated with the regime’s aggressive drug-dealing faction – the sub-group responsible for murdering young people in the streets and torturing some 300 political
prisoners.
The invasion, the absence of any weapons of mass destruction or any link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, the pictures of Iraqi civilian casualties, and the subsequent scenes of humiliating mistreatment or torture of Iraqi
prisoners
and detainees have all contributed to a wide, deep, and probably lasting collapse of sympathy for the US in the region.
Palestine’s response to Israel’s release in December of 26 political
prisoners
– the third batch from a total of 104 detainees that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledged to release when the peace talks were revived last summer – is a case in point.
Many of the
prisoners
had committed heinous acts of terror.
In my research on organ trafficking, I have entered some of these shadow markets, where body parts from the poor, war victims, and
prisoners
are commodities, bought or stolen for transplant into affluent ill people.
So a civilized China is emerging, just as a civilized Eastern Europe once emerged, from the hearts and minds of
prisoners
of conscience, of people like Liu Xiaobo.
The new facility for which the money is to be earmarked will house 106
prisoners
(the precise number is uncertain) who have been neither tried nor charged.
Eight of the
prisoners
are now entering the second month of a hunger strike.
Alcatraz was closed 50 years ago, in 1963, owing to its perceived inhumanity, and the
prisoners
were transferred elsewhere.
For starters,
prisoners
at Alcatraz who broke rules or were violent were punished by being put in “D Block,” where the cells had no windows; at Gitmo, all the cells that journalists are shown lack windows or natural light.
Likewise, in Alcatraz,
prisoners
had access to a fully stocked library, monthly visits from loved ones, and mail delivery.
At Gitmo, contrary to Red Cross rules,
prisoners
may not receive visits or mail from family, their reading is dramatically curtailed, and news is censored.
Prisoners
at Alcatraz also had basic privacy.
And, of course, the
prisoners
in Alcatraz had been tried in a court of law, defended by lawyers whose communications with them were privileged, and duly convicted of their crimes.
New Yorkers have never allowed themselves to be
prisoners
of the past.
When Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at the last World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he was asked how the administration could justify what was taking place in Guatanamo Bay, where
prisoners
are being kept without being charged and without counsel.
Cheney's answer was jarring: he said that because the detainees were captured in Afghanistan where they had been trying to kill US troops, the rules regarding
prisoners
of war did not apply.
Since September 11th, Saudi Arabia has felt intense pressure to explain (and explain away) its links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network because fifteen of the nineteen plane hijackers were Saudis (indeed, the majority of
prisoners
held by the US at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are said to be Saudi citizens) and Saudis are often viewed as a major source of al-Qaeda’s finances.
Thus, all current and former political prisoners, about 500,000 Buddhist monks, and more than twice as many members of ethnic minority groups living close to the borders were banned from the vote.
It is time to strongly condemn the exclusion of a considerable number of people from voting and to insist on the release of Burma’s political
prisoners.
He has casually suggested that the US should commit war crimes, such as pillaging countries’ oil resources and torturing
prisoners.
Political
prisoners
from both sides have been released, and a senior Fatah delegation just visited Gaza.
Having practiced long-term detentions without charge, trial, or access to family or counsel; having sexually humiliated and tortured prisoners, some of them to death; and having failed to hold accountable any of the high-level officials responsible for the policies that led to those crimes, the US is now seen as a hypocrite when it calls on other governments not to engage in such abuses.
But, despite deep popular sympathy, not a few Israelis – on both the left and the right – opposed the exchange of one soldier for a thousand or more Palestinian prisoners, some of whom perpetrated terrorist attacks that killed dozens of people.
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