UNSPEAKABLE RECORD of human rights abuse and breach of sovereignty

USA assassination, regime change, unlawful imprisonment, torture at home and abroad 1970s-2020

USA Slain Leaders, unlawfully detained Journalists 

(1973-2020 Alphabetical selection): 

• ♦ALLENDE, Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens President of Chile 1970-1973 and head of the Popular Unity political coalition government; Chilean democratic socialist politician and physician; U.S Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with Chilean military forced ouster of (regime change, coup d’état against) Salvador Allende and his alleged suicide [June 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973] 
• ♦ ASSANGE, Julian Paul: Australian editor, publisher, activist, founder of WikiLeaks [July 3, 1971 - ] 
• ♦ QADDAFI, Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar [Colonel “Gaddafi” (spelling varies)], Libyan revolutionary, politician; leader of Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic” (1969-1977); then “‘Brotherly Leader’ of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977- 2011) [circa 1942 – October 20, 2011] [other leading Libyan also killed on July 28, 2011: Abdul Fatah Younis, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Libyan Republic] 
• ♦ MILOŠEVIĆ, Slobodan President of Serbia (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) 1989-1997; President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997-2000 [August 20, 1941 – March 11, 2006] 
• ♦ SOLEIMANI, Qasem (also transliterated as Qassem Suleimani or Qassim Soleimani) Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); 1998-2020, “commander of its Quds Force, a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations.”

♦♦♦ USA Domestic ASSASSINATIONS: 

(historical order) 

• 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (Republican (1861–1865); 
• 20th U.S. President James A. Garfield (Republican 1881, shot less than four months into his term, died 79 days later, September 19, 1881); 
• 25th U.S. President William McKinley (Republican 1897–1901); 
• 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy (Democratic 1961–1963); 
• 64th United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic January 21, 1961 – September 3, 1964) / U.S. Senator January 1965 until death June 1968.

♦♦♦USA TORTURE, abduction, indefinite Detention without trial

(2001-2020) 

• Guantánamo Bay (Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp) in Cuba widely known as “a major breach of human rights… and violation of Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution.”
• ♦ Known and NOTORIOUS: Bagram Theater Internment Facility or Bagram Air Base prison (in Afghanistan); 
• Abu Ghraib (aka Baghdad Central Prison or Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq); also in Iraq “Camp Bucca (near Umm Qasr) and Camp Cropper (near the Baghdad International Airport)”; 
• United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) “secret prisons in Yemen where prisoners are forcibly disappeared and tortured”; 
• Also reported sites in Egypt, Libya and Morocco, Djibouti  (The Guardian in 2009 reported a CIA-run “secret detention center in Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, a former French Foreign Legion base”); 
• U.S. Naval Base on Diego Garcia in Indian Ocean is a reported black site (British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on February 21, 2008, admitted, and said sorry, that two United States extraordinary rendition flights refueled on Diego Garcia in 2002.”)

♦♦♦USA IMMIGRATION concentration camps

(2018 - ) 

• Migrant parents (including asylum seekers  escaping violence in their home countries) “arrested and put into criminal detention, their children taken away and classified as unaccompanied alien minors to hold in “child immigrant detention centers”; 

Ending 2018 

• “The number of children” held in concentration camps rises to “nearly 15,000”. 

• Because of the poor treatment, hundreds of “health violations” (particularly cited by Texas officials), and “deaths in custody,” these camps were declared “concentration camps” 

Sources 

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site#Suspected_sites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende

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