White Washing War Crimes, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Who will solve these war crimes?
WHITEWASHING WAR CRIMES
[Col. Writ. 5/28/05] Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. Bagram. Diego Garcia....
Words have power, and what these words evoke is precisely what American policy makers want to evoke: terror.
The international human rights group, Amnesty International, recently called the infamous Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq, "the gulag of our times."
The reference to the torture chambers and repressive Siberian prisons of the old Soviet Union, marked by the term, 'gulag', was remarkable. It was also correct.