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Guantanamo Bay History

"Guantanamo Bay history." CBC. CBC News, 1 May 2009. Web. 27 Oct. 2010.<http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/01/22/f-gitmo.html>.

The U.S. has occupied the Guantanamo base since 1898, leasing it from Cuba for some $4,000 per year and maintaining it throughout the Cold War. Cuba has refused to cash the rent cheques, calling the 116-square-kilometre base "a dagger pointed at Cuba's heart." It is in Guantanamo where the detainees from what the U.S. calls the global war on terror have been kept.

Chandler Mandell

Background Information on Guantánamo Bay

"Obama preparing order to close Gitmo ." msnbc. msnbc.com, 12 Jan. 2009. Web. 27 Oct. 2010. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28624679/>.

Guantanamo Bay is a United States Naval Base in southeastern Cuba. Since January 2002, thousands of detainees connected to the War on Terror have been housed at "Gitmo." The naval base, nicknamed "GTMO" or "Gitmo", covers 116 km² (about 45 square miles) on the western and eastern banks of the bay. It was established in 1898, when the United States took control of Cuba from Spain following the Spanish-American War.

Chandler Mandell

Incidents at Guantanamo Bay

The Torture of Prisoners

The Center for Constitutional Rights. Report on the Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment of Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. New York: The Center for Constitutional Rights, July 2006. PDF. <http://ccrjustice.org/files/Report_ReportOnTorture.pdf>

This report focuses on the experiences of prisoners inside Guantanamo Bay prison. Appearing in this report are specific accounts of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment drawn directly from prisoners statements made to counsel during in-prison interviews conducted at Guantanamo Bay. The file addresses the psychological abuse, physical abuse, medical abuse, sexual provocation, rape and harassment, and religious and cultural abuse the prisoners have experienced. This source offers research information and constitutes a negative view towards the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Lauren Hajnos