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Guantanamo a far cry from the gulag.(Commentary/Editorial)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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February 24, 2006
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Byline: Anil Adyanthaya
In his Rocky Mountain News column of Feb. 21, "The shame of Guantanamo," Paul Campos wrote that "(T)he only difference between the gulag and Guantanamo is the scale of the crime." Campos is correct that the Soviet gulag and Guantanamo involved different numbers of persons. Writer Anne Applebaum, the author of The gulag: A History estimates that 18 million persons were imprisoned in gulag camps. Today, there are about 500 inmates imprisoned at Guantanamo.
But, and unfortunately for Campos' argument, that is not the only difference ...
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