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The museum exists virtually as a website and is also installed in real-world galleries in a series of satellite exhibitions. [1] The museum claims to be based in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba at the site of the former Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp which according to the museum's history has been closed since 2012 when the museum was built to replace it. [2]
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, [note 1] also known as GTMO (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh), GITMO (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh), or just Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
In the 1990s, the United States used Guantanamo Bay as a processing center for asylum-seekers and as a camp for HIV-positive refugees. [citation needed] [11] Over a period of six months, the US interned over 30,000 Haitian refugees in Guantanamo, while another 30,000 fled to the Dominican Republic. Eventually, the US admitted 10,747 of the ...
Operations Safe Haven and Safe Passage (September 8, 1994 – March 15, 1995) were operations by the United States Joint Task Force designed to relieve the overcrowded migrant camps at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Safe Haven established four camps on Empire Range, Panama, to provide a safe haven for up to ten thousand Cuban migrants. Safe Passage ...
In April 2002, construction of the new 410-bed Camp Delta (Camps 1, 2, 3) was completed. The detainees were moved from Camp X-Ray to Camp Delta that month. In November 2002, Joint Task Force 160 and 170 were merged to create Joint Task Force Guantanamo. [citation needed] By 2007 original Camp Delta compound was supplemented by Camps 4, 5 and 6.
President Joe Biden made it an early goal of his administration to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, also known as GTMO, but the US made only marginal progress in moving the prisoners ...
That wasn’t always the case for Moath al-Alwi, a Yemeni citizen and prisoner at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. He had been captured near the Afghanistan ...
The Pentagon freed two prisoners Wednesday from Guantánamo Bay, marking the second and third releases this week from the notorious wartime detention camp. Mohammed Farik bin Amin and Mohammed ...