BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT.
On September 11 2001, two aeroplanes which were hijacked by terrorist crashed into the two tallest buildings in the US popularly known as the twin towers. Some suspects from al qaeda where arrested on charges on terrorism and where put in Guantanamo bay, Cuba. The president in charge of this case is president George.w.Bush and he blames Al qaeda for the attacks.
The al qaeda is an organisation headed by Osama Bin Laden. The prisoners in guantanomo bay are about 450 from at least 43 different countries. The main reason behind the arrest is to find out if any one or groups of the suspected prisoners had anything to do with the September 11 attack. The Guantanamo bay is outside the US and it has a major difference between all the prisons in US. The difference is that the prison doesn’t obey the UN declaration of human rights which is: right for free trial before being sentenced to prison, the right for everyone to be allowed any form of defence.g lawyers during the trial.
This two newspaper articles were derived from their websites dailymail.co.uk and bbc.co.uk are giving information on if the prisoners are being tortured. According to the BBC article prisoners do not have any contact with their families, they where just arrested without trial and they are facing interrogations with torture. On the other hand the article from the dailymail says that president bush denies having anything to do with the torture of the prisoners as he claims he didn’t other anything of that order. But further in the article some secret white house documents showed us politician Donald rumsfeld in dec.2002 approved harsh interrogation techniques for Taliban and al qaeda prisoners at the us naval base in Guantanamo.
VIEW OF BOTH ARTICLES. (COMPARISM)
In the daily mail the topic is about Bush denying ordering prisoner torture. The article in trying to inform the public that president bush does not have anything to do with the prisoner torture. On the other hand the BBC article is about torture in Guantanamo bay with a letter from one of the British detainees who claims his been unjustified and his rights have not been exercised.
The daily mail uses the evidence of white house documents which showed that dogs were used to induce fear to prisoners to force false/true information from the prisoners while the BBC they have letter as evidence from a British prisoner undergoing torture and pleading to be released. In both articles they use powerful and emotional words when trying to emphasis their points. Some of these words are: Torture, poking, violation, death, innocent, threatened, sexual humiliation, mental harm, soul and many others. In the daily mail it was said that a US Politian approved of torture and similarly in BBC news a letter from the British citizen Moazzam Begg said he had been abused and torture and he had also witnessed death of other prisoners.
In the daily Mail article President Bush was quoted to backup his denial of ordering prisoner torture. It said ‘the values of the country is such that torture is not a part of our soul and our being’, Also white house released official papers in an attempt to demonstrate that bush and his top aides insisted that the prisoners should be treated as human beings. Notwithstanding, the BBC news article also illustrates using the quote ‘I was subjected to threats of torture, actual vindictive torture and death threats’. To show that torture is actually taking place.
MY OPINION / CONCULUSION
After comparing both articles I certainly have my doubts about both of them. The Daily mail article was more interesting to me because I enjoyed the way the ideas where contrasted. The heading was more attractive. But I was more persuaded by the BBC news article because it was based on actual facts from someone/ prisoner who was actually going through torture.
I believe torture was taken in the prison because in the Daily Mail article it said that even though Bush denied, Donald Rumself a US Politian secretly approved harsh interrogation methods such as removal of clothing, poking of chest, sexual humiliation suggest torture in the prison. A typical example is that from the BBC article saying that Mozzam Begg in his letter wrote that all information and papers of confession had been done under torture and threats of death.
Finally, as a solution and in conclusion I think that no matter how this prisoners are the original partakers in the crime on September 11, they should be given a fair trial and should be given a fair trial and they should be allowed to here their lawyer, as a form of defence to back them up.
