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Amnesty Chief: 'Gulag' Not the Best Analogy
EFL: WASHINGTON — The American head of Amnesty International admits his group did not pick the best analogy when it compared detainee conditions at Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet-era "gulag" forced-labor system. "There are only about 70,000 in U.S. detention facilities, and to the best of our knowledge, they are not in forced labor, they are not being denied food. But there are some analogies between the gulags and our detention facilities," William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said in an interview with FOX News. "The U.S. is running an archipelago of detention facilities — many of them secret facilities — around the world and people in those are being disappeared into them ⊠they are being held incommunicado."
Posted by: Steve 2005-06-03 |
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