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US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
November 28, 2014
US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
After the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War in 1898, Cuba has come under the influence of the United States. In fact, the Spanish colonizers changed Americans.
American soldiers after the date of the Spanish Santiago de Cuba, 1898
In 1903, a contract was signed between the United States and the then Cuban authorities to lease the area adjacent to the Guantanamo Bay area of 118 square kilometers, which corresponds to a rectangle measuring 9 × 13 km.
The United States has the right to use 37 square kilometers of water surface Guantanamo Bay. Earlier this territory to the Spanish naval base.
Guantanamo Bay is the largest bay on the south-eastern tip of Cuba. Bay is surrounded by steep mountains.
US Navy ships docked in Guantanamo Bay
The contract term of the lease has been agreed the wording "for the period of time that will be required." To accomplish this, the Constitution of Cuba as an annex was included a special amendment. In this contract, in particular, has been set at a flat price of rent - «2000 pesos in gold currency of the United States" in the year. The very same agreement is "indefinite" and may be terminated "by mutual consent of the parties, or the same in violation of the lease terms."
Soon on this leased Cuban territory began construction of the American naval base.
The current status of the database is governed by the agreement of 1934 concluded after a series of coups d'état in Cuba in the early 1930s. As a result, fee for use of the base has been raised to $ 3,400. These funds are paid to Cuba until a popular uprising pro-American regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista was not overthrown. It is worth noting that for such base in Taiwan and the Philippines in 1950-1970-ies, the US paid respectively 120 and 140 million. USD. Per year.
After the victory of the 1959 revolution, the Cuban government has refused to take 1961 by the US ridiculous rent for this base, demanding its liquidation or otherwise increase the rent by 50 times. In the same year, Havana unilaterally withdrew from the US-Cuban agreement in 1934, confirming the terms of the lease. But the United States generally refused to negotiate with Havana on these issues, increasing its military presence in Guantanamo.
Aggravated US-Cuban relations nearly brought the world to a nuclear war. After the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the US promised Moscow that from the territory of the naval base of Guantanamo will not be carried out raids Cuban-Castro opponents. This promise is still carried out by Washington.
And in response, Moscow promised to keep the harbor from the action against Guantanamo, which also failed. Therefore, even in the Soviet period and base it occupies the area did not include the Soviet delegation to the UN, unlike the Chinese, in the list of the colonial and dependent territories.
No Soviet statesman in his speeches nor in Cuba or the Soviet Union, a single word is never mentioned on this basis and the illegality of its existence. A Cuban leaders who visited the USSR, Kremlin officials "advised" as little as possible, and it is better not mention it in public speeches.
In the 70s, Albanian, Chinese and North Korean representatives at the UN strongly criticized Moscow for its silence on the issue of illegal US base at Guantanamo Bay. This criticism was so sharp at times that the Soviet representative to the UN often had to leave in protest meeting room.
Last but not least the Soviet position on this issue has affected the fact that the American base is still illegally staying in the territory of Cuba. On many interrelated reasons the United States not only continue to occupy part of the Cuban sovereign territory, but also use it to control a very large region.
However, in the past the US military conducted regular exercises for emergency evacuation of personnel and equipment from Guantanamo. At the same time, Cuban units during the Cold War held regular military maneuvers in the areas adjacent to the base.
There is no doubt that, if necessary, the Cubans would quickly eliminated the American base, another question that this would inevitably lead to unpredictable consequences. Realizing this, the two sides, despite their mutual hostility, refrain from rash action. Largely deterrent Americans is the presence on the "island of freedom" of the Soviet military contingent. Aggression against Cuba would automatically mean military escalation against the USSR.
The Cuban government claims about the illegality of the placement of the US base, relying on Article 52 of the Vienna Convention of 1969, which unequal treaties (prisoners under the threat of military force) will be void. However, the US authorities relied on Article 4 of the same Convention, according to which the Convention does not apply to previously concluded agreements.
During the Soviet-American confrontation naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was crucial in naval strategy in the region and served as the cornerstone of US military operations in the area of responsibility of the 4th Fleet. Guantanamo Naval Base played a significant role in the operations of the US Navy in Grenada, Panama and Haiti.
In fact, the United States exercise their sovereignty in the area and certainly in full, and the jurisdiction of Cuba is purely formal, recognized that the US Supreme Court. "From a practical standpoint Guantanamo - is not abroad," the judge ruled.
In its area of Guantanamo Naval Base is the largest US military base on foreign soil. It has two runways capable of receiving all types of aircraft.
Snapshot Google Earth: American planes airport in Guantanamo
On land there are more than 1,500 offices and residential units, mechanized port, ship repair workshops, there is a floating dock, storage of food, ammunition, fuel and lubricants.
Snapshot Google Earth: port facilities Guantanamo naval base
Here, in a comfortable environment can accommodate up to 10,000 military personnel. Base regularly attend major warships of the US Navy.
Landing ship dock US Navy Class "San Antonio" in the Guantanamo naval base
To ensure normal living conditions of permanent contingent base has a developed civil infrastructure, including entertainment clubs, tennis courts, baseball fields, swimming pools, beaches, racecourse, fishing boats and yachts.
"McDonald's" in the Guantanamo Bay
Notorious Guantanamo was in 2002, when its territory was created prison for "suspected of terrorist activities against the United States and its allies." Prior to that, at the site database was filtration camp for refugees from Cuba and Haiti.
In January 2002, there were brought from Afghanistan, the first 20 people accused of "involvement in fighting on the side of Islamic extremists" - the Taliban.
In the four years since the arrival of the first prisoners through the prison at Guantanamo Bay has been more than 750 "suspects" captured by US forces during operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. All of them, according to the US military took part in operations on the side of "Al-Qaeda" and the movement "Taliban". Subsequently, about a third of them were released, transferred to other prisons or issued by the country of which they are (among them were seven citizens of Russia). All Russians were arrested in the autumn of 2001, during a military operation against the Taliban. In February 2004, seven prisoners were extradited to Russia. Six of them were subsequently sentenced to prison on charges of various crimes. Another - Ruslan Odizhev - was killed in Nalchik in 2007.
Since 2002, from detention camps in the open air prison turned into a full-fledged prison, through which passed the 779 people from 42 countries aged 15 to 62 years. Currently at Guantanamo have been detained about 160 people.
n June 2013 the US administration has sent to Congress a list of the most dangerous prisoners in prison. According to the newspaper "Miami Herald", one of the "indefinite detention, which is too dangerous to ship to other prisons or country, but you can not judge because of lack of evidence", originally consisted of 48 people. Two of them have already died, one committed suicide, the other died of a heart attack. Of the remaining 26 are citizens of Yemen, 10 - Afghanistan 3 - Saudi Arabia, 2 - Kuwait and Libya, another one
Since the base is not included in any of the US judicial districts contained therein faces are outside US jurisdiction. In accordance with the decree of President George W. Bush in November 2001, "On the legal status of prisoners captured in Afghanistan," they are considered not "arrested" and not "prisoners of war", which is subject to certain rules of international law, and "detainees", which is not officially indicted.
In practice this means that they can be held in prison indefinitely. Many prisoners alleged that they were subjected to illegal interrogation methods such as sleep deprivation, exposure to extreme temperatures, loud music, waterboarding. According to human rights activists, detention in such conditions is a violation adopted in 1984 by the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
On the second day after taking office January 21, 2009, fulfilling campaign promises, President Barack Obama signed an order to disband the prison. However, until now the prison is closed. This approach of the US authorities to the international norms and so loved by them "human rights" has once again demonstrated its commitment to the US "double standards".
Based on:
http://interaffairs.ru/read.php?item=8714
https://www.cnic.navy.mil/Guantanamo...tmohistgeneral
http://tass.ru/info/890849
Satellite images courtesy of Google Earth
======================================
Tempat terkenal di saentero jagad tergelar, dimana banyak tawanan hasil perang di Afghanistan di jebloskan kedalam tahanan yg ngeri-ngeri pedih, oleh AS. Semoga hal tersebut tidak usyah terjadi lagi, cukup sekali ini saja.
US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
After the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War in 1898, Cuba has come under the influence of the United States. In fact, the Spanish colonizers changed Americans.
American soldiers after the date of the Spanish Santiago de Cuba, 1898
In 1903, a contract was signed between the United States and the then Cuban authorities to lease the area adjacent to the Guantanamo Bay area of 118 square kilometers, which corresponds to a rectangle measuring 9 × 13 km.
The United States has the right to use 37 square kilometers of water surface Guantanamo Bay. Earlier this territory to the Spanish naval base.
Guantanamo Bay is the largest bay on the south-eastern tip of Cuba. Bay is surrounded by steep mountains.
US Navy ships docked in Guantanamo Bay
The contract term of the lease has been agreed the wording "for the period of time that will be required." To accomplish this, the Constitution of Cuba as an annex was included a special amendment. In this contract, in particular, has been set at a flat price of rent - «2000 pesos in gold currency of the United States" in the year. The very same agreement is "indefinite" and may be terminated "by mutual consent of the parties, or the same in violation of the lease terms."
Soon on this leased Cuban territory began construction of the American naval base.
The current status of the database is governed by the agreement of 1934 concluded after a series of coups d'état in Cuba in the early 1930s. As a result, fee for use of the base has been raised to $ 3,400. These funds are paid to Cuba until a popular uprising pro-American regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista was not overthrown. It is worth noting that for such base in Taiwan and the Philippines in 1950-1970-ies, the US paid respectively 120 and 140 million. USD. Per year.
After the victory of the 1959 revolution, the Cuban government has refused to take 1961 by the US ridiculous rent for this base, demanding its liquidation or otherwise increase the rent by 50 times. In the same year, Havana unilaterally withdrew from the US-Cuban agreement in 1934, confirming the terms of the lease. But the United States generally refused to negotiate with Havana on these issues, increasing its military presence in Guantanamo.
Aggravated US-Cuban relations nearly brought the world to a nuclear war. After the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the US promised Moscow that from the territory of the naval base of Guantanamo will not be carried out raids Cuban-Castro opponents. This promise is still carried out by Washington.
And in response, Moscow promised to keep the harbor from the action against Guantanamo, which also failed. Therefore, even in the Soviet period and base it occupies the area did not include the Soviet delegation to the UN, unlike the Chinese, in the list of the colonial and dependent territories.
No Soviet statesman in his speeches nor in Cuba or the Soviet Union, a single word is never mentioned on this basis and the illegality of its existence. A Cuban leaders who visited the USSR, Kremlin officials "advised" as little as possible, and it is better not mention it in public speeches.
In the 70s, Albanian, Chinese and North Korean representatives at the UN strongly criticized Moscow for its silence on the issue of illegal US base at Guantanamo Bay. This criticism was so sharp at times that the Soviet representative to the UN often had to leave in protest meeting room.
Last but not least the Soviet position on this issue has affected the fact that the American base is still illegally staying in the territory of Cuba. On many interrelated reasons the United States not only continue to occupy part of the Cuban sovereign territory, but also use it to control a very large region.
However, in the past the US military conducted regular exercises for emergency evacuation of personnel and equipment from Guantanamo. At the same time, Cuban units during the Cold War held regular military maneuvers in the areas adjacent to the base.
There is no doubt that, if necessary, the Cubans would quickly eliminated the American base, another question that this would inevitably lead to unpredictable consequences. Realizing this, the two sides, despite their mutual hostility, refrain from rash action. Largely deterrent Americans is the presence on the "island of freedom" of the Soviet military contingent. Aggression against Cuba would automatically mean military escalation against the USSR.
The Cuban government claims about the illegality of the placement of the US base, relying on Article 52 of the Vienna Convention of 1969, which unequal treaties (prisoners under the threat of military force) will be void. However, the US authorities relied on Article 4 of the same Convention, according to which the Convention does not apply to previously concluded agreements.
During the Soviet-American confrontation naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was crucial in naval strategy in the region and served as the cornerstone of US military operations in the area of responsibility of the 4th Fleet. Guantanamo Naval Base played a significant role in the operations of the US Navy in Grenada, Panama and Haiti.
In fact, the United States exercise their sovereignty in the area and certainly in full, and the jurisdiction of Cuba is purely formal, recognized that the US Supreme Court. "From a practical standpoint Guantanamo - is not abroad," the judge ruled.
In its area of Guantanamo Naval Base is the largest US military base on foreign soil. It has two runways capable of receiving all types of aircraft.
Snapshot Google Earth: American planes airport in Guantanamo
On land there are more than 1,500 offices and residential units, mechanized port, ship repair workshops, there is a floating dock, storage of food, ammunition, fuel and lubricants.
Snapshot Google Earth: port facilities Guantanamo naval base
Here, in a comfortable environment can accommodate up to 10,000 military personnel. Base regularly attend major warships of the US Navy.
Landing ship dock US Navy Class "San Antonio" in the Guantanamo naval base
To ensure normal living conditions of permanent contingent base has a developed civil infrastructure, including entertainment clubs, tennis courts, baseball fields, swimming pools, beaches, racecourse, fishing boats and yachts.
"McDonald's" in the Guantanamo Bay
Notorious Guantanamo was in 2002, when its territory was created prison for "suspected of terrorist activities against the United States and its allies." Prior to that, at the site database was filtration camp for refugees from Cuba and Haiti.
In January 2002, there were brought from Afghanistan, the first 20 people accused of "involvement in fighting on the side of Islamic extremists" - the Taliban.
In the four years since the arrival of the first prisoners through the prison at Guantanamo Bay has been more than 750 "suspects" captured by US forces during operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. All of them, according to the US military took part in operations on the side of "Al-Qaeda" and the movement "Taliban". Subsequently, about a third of them were released, transferred to other prisons or issued by the country of which they are (among them were seven citizens of Russia). All Russians were arrested in the autumn of 2001, during a military operation against the Taliban. In February 2004, seven prisoners were extradited to Russia. Six of them were subsequently sentenced to prison on charges of various crimes. Another - Ruslan Odizhev - was killed in Nalchik in 2007.
Since 2002, from detention camps in the open air prison turned into a full-fledged prison, through which passed the 779 people from 42 countries aged 15 to 62 years. Currently at Guantanamo have been detained about 160 people.
n June 2013 the US administration has sent to Congress a list of the most dangerous prisoners in prison. According to the newspaper "Miami Herald", one of the "indefinite detention, which is too dangerous to ship to other prisons or country, but you can not judge because of lack of evidence", originally consisted of 48 people. Two of them have already died, one committed suicide, the other died of a heart attack. Of the remaining 26 are citizens of Yemen, 10 - Afghanistan 3 - Saudi Arabia, 2 - Kuwait and Libya, another one
Since the base is not included in any of the US judicial districts contained therein faces are outside US jurisdiction. In accordance with the decree of President George W. Bush in November 2001, "On the legal status of prisoners captured in Afghanistan," they are considered not "arrested" and not "prisoners of war", which is subject to certain rules of international law, and "detainees", which is not officially indicted.
In practice this means that they can be held in prison indefinitely. Many prisoners alleged that they were subjected to illegal interrogation methods such as sleep deprivation, exposure to extreme temperatures, loud music, waterboarding. According to human rights activists, detention in such conditions is a violation adopted in 1984 by the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
On the second day after taking office January 21, 2009, fulfilling campaign promises, President Barack Obama signed an order to disband the prison. However, until now the prison is closed. This approach of the US authorities to the international norms and so loved by them "human rights" has once again demonstrated its commitment to the US "double standards".
Based on:
http://interaffairs.ru/read.php?item=8714
https://www.cnic.navy.mil/Guantanamo...tmohistgeneral
http://tass.ru/info/890849
Satellite images courtesy of Google Earth
======================================
Tempat terkenal di saentero jagad tergelar, dimana banyak tawanan hasil perang di Afghanistan di jebloskan kedalam tahanan yg ngeri-ngeri pedih, oleh AS. Semoga hal tersebut tidak usyah terjadi lagi, cukup sekali ini saja.
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