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Four years on, following a number of watered down positions on the USA’s appalling detention centre at Guantánamo, Parliament has adopted a resolution that ‘reiterates its call on the US Administration to shut down the detention facility’.
Parliament also condemns torture, including the euphemistically termed ‘special interrogation techniques’, such as sexual humiliation, ‘water boarding’ and electric shocks, which constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
All of those who have always condemned this unacceptable, brutal and inhuman situation have a duty to condemn these practices.
Yet Parliament has failed to condemn the true nature of the so-called 'war on terror' and the way in which the United States has used it to occupy sovereign states and attack their populations.
Parliament has also failed to condemn the fact that the Guantánamo detention centre is not an isolated case and that it actually forms part of an onslaught led by the USA in contravention of international law and the United Nations conventions and Charter. We have no truck whatsoever with this onslaught, which must be condemned."@en1
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