Road to Guantanamo
The docudrama, the Road to Guantanamo, the 2006 film by Matt Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom provided a unique look at the complexities and difficulties of enforcing international cooperation. This thrilling tale of the now famous "Tipton Three" British men of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin who, through a combination of poor decision-making and violations of international law, allows the viewer to examine these modern problems using the war on terrorism as a means of telling the story. The purpose of this essay is to examine this film and highlight five separate violations of international cooperation using the articles of the Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a guide and authority of the discussion.
The first violation of international cooperation is evident at the beginning of the film. The film is taking place under the conditions at the beginning of the war on terror in 2001. The actions taken by the United States military and the actual bombing campaigns against Afghanistan violates the Geneva Convention, as innocent citizens are ruthlessly murdered by American jets not distinguishing between civilian and combatant as expressed in these powerful articles. This violation does give us the premise to analyze the argument with more examples. Because of this bombing raids, these three men on a private venture are taken away by force after surviving one of these attacks. Here the United States now commits various other violations of both the Geneva Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights explains and reinforces the inalienable rights of every living human. The 30 articles that explicitly give this document the...
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