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Guantanamo Bay murder accusations were made regarding the deaths of three prisoners on June 10, 2006 at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp for enemy combatants at its naval base in Cuba. Two of the men had been cleared by the military for release. The United States Department of Defense (DOD) claimed their deaths at the time as suicides, although their families and the Saudi government argued against the findings, and numerous journalists have raised questions then and since. The DOD undertook an investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, published in redacted form in 2008. In April 2008, Murat Kurnaz, a former detainee released without charges and repatriated to Germany, published the English translation of his memoir, ''Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo'' (2007). In it he discussed the deaths of the three detainees in June 2006. Given the conditions at the camp and constant observation by guards of the cells, he and the other prisoners "unanimously" concluded that the three detainees had been killed, perhaps by beating or strangling.〔 Following release of the redacted NCIS investigative report in August 2008, which reaffirmed the DOD conclusions of suicide, Seton Hall University Law School's Center for Policy and Research published ''Death in Camp Delta'' (December 2009), a report criticizing the Department of Defense account for inconsistencies and weaknesses. It suggested there was serious negligence at the camp, or potential cover-up of homicides resulting from torture.〔 In January 2010, ''Harper's Magazine'' and NBC News released the report of a joint investigation, based on accounts by four former Military Intelligence staff, stationed at the time at Guantanamo. They suggested the military under the Bush administration had covered up deaths of the men that occurred under torture at a "black site" known as Camp No or Camp 7 in the course of interrogations. In 2011, Scott Horton's article on the Guantanamo events won the National Magazine Awards for Reporting. The award revived a round of criticism of the article, including from a publication normally associated with the advertising industry.〔(Andy Worthington, "On the 5th Anniversary of the Disputed Guantánamo “Suicides,” Jeff Kaye Defends Scott Horton" ), Andy Worthington website, 6 October 2011, accessed 3 January 2013〕〔(Jeff Kaye, "Deconstructing the Campaign to Malign Award-Winning Article on Guantánamo 'Suicides'" ), ''Truthout'', 1 June 2011, accessed 3 January 2013〕 ==Background== On 10 June 2006, three prisoners: Mani al-Utaybi, age 30; Yasser al-Zahrani, age 20; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed, age 37, died in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.〔("Three Guantanamo detainees die in suicides ), ''Reuters'', June 10, 2006〕 Their cases had been reviewed and al-Utaybi was less than three weeks away from being transferred to Saudi Arabia. Al-Zahrani was on a list of detainees to be repatriated, also to Saudi Arabia. The ''Washington Post'' carried a quote from a CSRT review of Ahmed's case, which said there was no evidence of terrorist involvement. As Ahmed was from Yemen, the "difficult diplomatic relations" between his country and the US were delaying his repatriation.〔 (詳細はThe Pentagon informed the media that three detainees had been found dead, having "killed themselves in an apparent suicide pact". U.S. President George W. Bush expressed "serious concern" about their deaths. Rear Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo, said the men were dedicated terrorists and jihadists. He described the deaths as "an act of asymmetric warfare committed against us." The three prisoners, two Saudis and one Yemeni, were reported to have hanged themselves in their cells with nooses made of sheets and clothes, and gone undetected by guards until after they died.〔 All three were former hunger-strikers who had been force-fed at times during detention.〔 The government immediately ordered an investigation, which was undertaken by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Their report was released publicly in 2008, in a heavily redacted form. It found that conditions at the camp needed to be changed, but no guards or officers were prosecuted for any reason. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guantanamo Bay homicide accusations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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