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3. • Founded in CUBA, The bay was called Guantánamo by
its original inhabitants,Christopher Columbus landed in
1494, naming it Puerto Grande : Great Port.
• Guantánamo “has been under unrivaled U.S. control
since the Spanish American war concluded in 1898,
leasing from Cuba $4000per yr and maintaining it
throughout the cold war.

4. • 1903: Cuban-American Treaty Grants U.S. Lease
of Guantanamo Bay, the US formally gave permission
by the Cuban government to establish a military base on the
2 coasts of Guantanamo Bay in northwest Cuba.
1934: Treaty Renewed, Terms Stipulate Both
Parties Must Agree to Close Base, Cuba agreed to
renew the United States' lease on Guantanamo Bay,
establishing an indefinite lease that could not be dissolved
unless both parties agreed to do so. At the time, Cuba also
agreed to provide supplies to the base.

5. • 1964: Cuban Government Cuts Off Supplies
from Guantanamo
In 1964, the new Castro government declared that the
Guantanamo treaty had been coerced, and no longer
recognized the terms of the treaty as valid. Military
officials at Guantanamo were forced to make the base
self-sufficient, with its own power grid and water supply.

6. • 1991-1993: Camp Bulkeley Used to Detain
HIV-Positive Haitian Refugees
Human rights activists were outraged when 310 HIV-
positive Haitian immigrants were isolated from other
refugees & imprisoned in Camp Bulkeley, a crowded
and unsanitary detention camp. They were finally
released in 1993.

8. • 1996: Operation Marathon Focuses on
Undocumented Chinese Migrants
Guantanamo's detention facilities have historically been
used to house refugees and other undocumented
immigrants captured on the high seas. Under 1996's
Operation Marathon anti-smuggling initiative,
Guantanamo detention facilities were used to house an
estimated 120 Chinese migrants who had attempted to
illegally migrate to the United States by sea.

9. • 1997: Operation Present Haven Focuses on
Undocumented Guyanese Migrants
Guantanamo was also used to house Guyanese migrants
who had attempted to reach the United States by sea.
• 2002: Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Used to
House Post-9/11 Detainees
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001,
Guantanamo Bay detention facilities were used to
house alleged enemy combatants from Afghanistan
and Iraq.

10. • 2004: Allegations of Torture
Guantanamo detainees began approaching human rights
groups complaining that moderate torture techniques
had been used against them. This was later confirmed
by military documents indicating that the use of some
techniques commonly considered torture--such as
forced standing, sleep deprivation, loud noises, and
waterboarding--may have been used at Guantanamo
facilities.

12. • 2006: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Changing Legal
Status of Post-9/11 Detainees
The Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld clearly
established that Guantanamo detainees were protected by the
Geneva Conventions, and could not be detained permanently
without trial.
• 2009: Obama Announces Plans to Shut Down
Detention Facility Within a Year
January 21 2009, President Obama issued his first executive
ORDER--calling for the closure of detention facilities within a year,
and an immediate case-by-case review of all detentions.

14. • Some of the tortures that take place are:
- Waterboarding(submerging ones head in water)
- Beatings
- Stress Positions(forcing prisoners to stand/ crouch for hours)
- Sexual abuse
- Torture by music(ear-splitting music for hours continuall, which
has been proven to induce states of psychosis in prisoners after
jus a few hours)
- Sleep Deprivation(sometimes weeks on end)
- Temperature extremes

16. - Prolonged isolation
- Electric shocks
- Put Bags and masks over your Head for a long period of time.
- Put in Basket cots and make you lie in HOT SUN
- Ongoing torture: sexual degradation, forced drugging and
religious persecution
- feeding tubes were forcibly shoved up their noses and down
into their stomachs, with guards using the same tubes from one
patient to another. No sedatives were provided during these
procedures.
- Interrogations that are not pleasant
- M…O….R…E….much more (think of the worst)

19. • These prisoners have...
No legal representation
No inspections from Human Right's groups
No accountability for the captors
No checks on abuse
Not charged with crimes
Not allowed counsel
Identities not disclosed to anyone
No status as POWs given
Rules of Geneva Convention for treatment of prisoners not
honored.
Trials, including death penalty decisions, will be secret
Is essence, they don't exist as human beings or legal, human
entities.

23. • U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrating the
Qur'an to get inmates to talk, including placing the
holy book on a toilet, and flushing it down the toilet.
• Splashing urine on a prisoner and his Qur'an.
• Stepping on and kicking the Qur'an, throwing water on
it, and scratching an obscenity on the inside cover.

24. • A teenage Omar Khadr sobs uncontrollably as Canadian spy agents question
him at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay,
The 10-minute video posted just after 5 a.m. ET is of poor quality and the
voices are often inaudible, as it was never intended to be viewed by the
public. But it shows the Toronto-born Khadr, 16 AT THE TIME, being
interviewed by Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials in late
February 2003.
7½ hours of questioning that took place 6months after Khadr was captured
following a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.
The tapes, made public under a court order obtained by Khadr's lawyers,
offer a rare glimpse of interrogations of Guantanamo detainees and of
Khadr.
Khadr, now 21, has been held at the military prison for the Past 6years.
Youtube – Omar Khadr Interrogation 2008

26. • May 20 2009 Barrack ORDERED to close
Guantanamo Bay but Kansas public officials including
2 senators and governor OBJECTED.
• Gunatanamo Review Task Force issued a Final report
Realesing 126 detainees to their homes on 22 Jan 2010
but was only publicied on 28 may 2010.

28. • On March 7, 2011 President Obama gave the green
light to resume military trials, conducted by military
officers, with a military judge presiding, of terror
suspects detained at Guantánamo Bay
• 7 January 2011, Obama signed the Defense
Authorization Bill which contains Provisoions
preventing the transfer of detainees to their homeland
& effectively stopping the closure of the dentention
facility.

29. • 12 December 2011, New York Times Published
‘Guantanamo Forever, retired US Marine Corps Generals
– Charles C. Krulak
- Joseph P. Hoar, both generals agreed that they should be
moving to shut down Guantanamo instead of extending it.
• December 31 after signing the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2012 into law, Obama voiced his concerns
regarding certain Provisions and will aggressively follow the
procedures that will oppose any attempt to extend or expand
Gitmo in the future

30. 11 Jan 2012 Wednesday, Protesters dressed in
orange prison jumpsuits, paraded in front of
the White House to demand that the
Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed.

31. • Barack Obama promised two years ago to shut down
the prison within a year of taking office.
• No detainee has left in a year because of restrictions on
transfers, and indefinite military detention is now
enshrined in the US law.
• Under the new legislation signed by Obama, the US
military is given the custody of anyone, who is deemed
to be a member of al-Qaeda or terrorists.

34. • Human rights groups and lawyers for prisoners are
DISAPPOINTED that Obama failed to overcome
resistance in Congress and close the prison, The
Horrific thing is prisoners that are innocent have not
been released.
• The protesters also demand the closure of the US
military's Bagram prison in Afghanistan and the repeal
of provisions of the 2011 Defense Authorization Act.

35. • Bagram prison, officially known as the Parwan Detention
Center, is located in one of the largest military bases for
Nato-led forces fighting in Afghanistan and holds 3,000
detainees, including terror suspects.
• A prison in Afghanistan jus like Guantanamo run by the
Americans and Afghanis. Recent statement: Bagram is
Guantanamo evil twin (Much worse than Gitmo). Also
women are found at this place.

36. • In Bad Boys 2, in 2003 the end scene takes place just
outside Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp.
• There are prisoners their Younger than 16years old.
• Abu Ghraib is another Prison for Ladies in Irag.
• So many places we don’t know of. (Internet)
• Dr. Sister Aafia is one lady we know of.

39. Lets all stand together and B the Voice 4
the VOICELESS.
Stand UP come on Bstrong
Bheard Bproud

40. • www. Wikileaks.com
• www.campxray.org
• CBC News
• Al Jazeera
• Press TV
• www. Thejusticecampaign.org
• www.wikipedia.com
• www.youtube.com

41. • Oh Almighty, Our Creator, the most just of
every type of justice. The most merciful of
every type of mercy.
Please remove every type of injustice,
tyranny & torture that is practised in the
world, by the forces of falsehood, upon
innocent peace – loving citizens. We hope &
pray that every institution of injustice closes
its doors until eternity & may these innocent
people b reunited with their families soon