The Committee expresses its deep concern about the fact that the State party continues to hold a number of individuals without charge at Guantanamo Bay detention facilities. Notwithstanding the State party's position that these individuals have been captured and detained as 'enemy belligerents' and that under the law of war is permitted 'to hold them until the end of the hostilities', the Committee reiterates that indefinite detention constitutes per se a violation of the Convention.
No More Deception
By choosing to disregard these three distressing realities, TF19 and the leaders of APA's military psychology division have offered a very dark vision for the profession of psychology -- a vision that we must reject, both individually and institutionally. It should be apparent that, by any reasonable accounting, humane treatment has not ruled the day at Guantanamo post-PENS. To claim otherwise is an affront to the ethical practice of psychology and, even more so, to hundreds of war-on-terror detainees who have been the direct victims of abuse.
The Hoffman Report convincingly demonstrates that collusion between the APA and DoD served to preserve and protect BSCT psychologists working at Guantanamo. It's now time to discard the carefully crafted fiction that these psychologists have a legitimate, ethical role to play in supporting the interrogation and detention operations there. Until they are removed, psychologists remain key actors in an environment that was aptly called "the gulag of our time" a decade ago, and where abuses still persist today.
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