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Guantánamo Effect
21st century american military history
A01=Eric Stover
A01=Laurel Emile Fletcher
american military practices
Author_Eric Stover
Author_Laurel Emile Fletcher
bush administration
capture
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Category=LBBR
center for constitutional rights
cuba
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former prisoners
guantanamo
guantanamo bay
human rights center
incarceration
international human rights law clinic
international law
interrogation
national security
political
post 9/11 america
president george w bush
prisoner abuse
united states of america
us detention
us interrogation practices
war on terror
war time laws
Product details
- ISBN 9780520261778
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book, based on a two-year study of former prisoners of the U.S. government's detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reveals in graphic detail the cumulative effect of the Bush administration's 'war on terror'. Scrupulously researched and devoid of rhetoric, the book deepens the story of post-9/11 America and the nation's descent into the netherworld of prisoner abuse. Researchers interviewed more than sixty former Guantanamo detainees in nine countries, as well as key government officials, military experts, former guards, interrogators, lawyers for detainees, and other camp personnel. We hear directly from former detainees as they describe the events surrounding their capture, their years of incarceration, and the myriad difficulties preventing many from resuming a normal life upon returning home.
Prepared jointly by researchers with the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, and the International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights, "The Guantanamo Effect" contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the US' commitment to international law during war time.
Laurel E. Fletcher is Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Eric Stover is Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague.
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