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Lonias Rozvi Majoni Correspondent
The inhumane practices by the United States at Guantanamo Bay detention camp point to the existence of shameless hypocrites, devils incarnate and certified slayers of mankind!
Interestingly, the US, alongside its Western allies have the loudest beaks when it comes to accusing other states of human rights violations.
They always meddle in other nations’ affairs, posing as super prefects of human rights and role models of democracy without any blemish.
However, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is one of the many torture sites by the US where mankind is grievously wounded.
Additionally, the world watches every year as the US and its allies unleash untold terror on sovereign states, violating fundamental values of life and mankind protected by human rights.
The gruesome invasion of Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and other sovereign states is just the top of the iceberg.
Even history can not hesitate to testify on the US and its Western allies’ penchant for human rights violations.
The slave trade, colonialism and grave military acts like the massacre bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are some of the historical facts of the US and its allies’ villainy.
Even its harsh policies on other states like Zimbabwe is another pointer to the US’ wickedness.
The illegal and devastating ZIDERA law by US against Zimbabweans coupled with unreasonable and destructive sanctions by the EU has been causing untold suffering to the people of Zimbabwe, thus violating human rights in many ways.
For instance, due to the presence of sanctions and the cancerous ZIDERA in particular, the economy of Zimbabwe has been deteriorating, causing untold suffering to the majority.
Furthermore, Zimbabweans are now deeply polarised, thus a threat to patriotism.
A lot has been said, a lot has been written, but to date the world watches as the self-proclaimed champions of democracy and human rights, the US and its allies, lead the pack of devourers of mankind!
Recently, in a series of daily updates on major social media handles — Twitter and Facebook, Zanu PF’s director of Information and Publicity, Cde Tafadzwa Mugwadi, unpacked the brutal and inhuman acts at the US ’s torture centre.
He revealed devastating and gory pictures of “prisoners” being treated like animals.
In one of the posts, Cde Mugwadi shows a picture of a group of victims tied like cattle waiting to be slaughtered at an abattoir.
The victims, whose hands are tied to the back, are lined up in a crowded dark room with blood stains visibly seen, clearly revealing a deathly oubliette.
Cde Mugwadi reveals that the US’ CIA has a torture training syllabus for its officers and agents used for interrogation.
He adds that similar camps also exist elsewhere.
In another resonating post is a picture of a smiling and amazingly beautiful female CIA agent.
She is posing for a photo beside a dead torture victim, striking a sharp contrast between her mouth-watering magnificence and death.
It is this juxtaposition which resembles how the US outwardly appears to be saints and yet in actual fact it is a shocking case of a devious wolf in a very clean and soft sheep skin.
Ironically, the US and its allies are currently very noisy, pointing accusation fingers on other states and pretending to be champions of human rights.
For instance, the US and the West criticise the ongoing Russian special military operation in Ukraine, accusing the Russian Federation of human rights violations.
Similar criticism is placed on Zimbabwe each time she tries to uphold constitutional obligations against Western funded political activists and agents of regime change.
Ironically, the gross inhuman practices in the US’ dreaded torture camp in Guantanamo Bay among other cases is a stinking problem of gross human rights violations.
A confidential report said to have been leaked to a leading paper in the US in November 2004, revealed that after having inspected some of the prison facilities, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported on “humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, and use of forced positions” against prisoners.
It is said that the inspectors went to conclude that “the construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture.”
Additionally, more reports and testimonies have emerged, revealing the gruesome circumstances of human rights violations at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp.
For instance, in 2013, the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) is said to have come to the conclusion that health professionals working with the military and intelligence services “designed and participated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture of detainees” as they were made to ignore ethical standards during involvement in abusive interrogation, including monitoring of vital signs under stress-inducing procedures.
Additionally, more cases of suicide and sexual abuses on prisoners have been reported.
In April 2004, it is reported that Cuban diplomats called for a UN investigation of Guantánamo Bay.
It is also revealed that more findings pointed that activities at the detention camp were inconsistent with the UN Convention Against Torture.
In the same vein, a United Nations rapporteur, Martin Scheinin released a preliminary report for the United Nations Human Rights Council showing that the United States violated International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Above all the indefinite detention, followed by torture without trial is a clear breach of both US and international laws.
Its existence was also considered a breach of human rights by the Amnesty International.
The Guantanamo Detention Camp is a torture facility established by US former president George W Bush’s administration in 2002.
Calls for its shutdown prompted another US leader President Barrack Obama to declare that he would close it, although this proved to be a futile promise.
However, in yet another rhetoric, it is reported that US President Joe Biden’s administration also promised to shut the torture camp.
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