Modern Life is Rubbish

The Guantánamo military base is a very bad place and yeah; I know I work for AK, and might not be able to comment on anything. But here is the internal press release:

Aker Kvaerner dismisses Amnesty claims as wrong
Oslo, January 11: Amnesty International Norway has today informed Norwegian media about the conclusion in a legal evaluation ordered by Amnesty, with focus on Aker Kvaerner's previous project at the Guantanamo Bay navy base. Aker Kvaerner has dismissed the allegations as incorrect.

Amnesty's legal evaluation claims that torture and violations of human rights have taken place at the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo, and that Aker Kvaerner indirectly was complicit because of the company's project at the base.

Aker Kvaerner's comment to the media on this case was: ”In the middle of the 1990s, the previous Kvaerner corporation started on a contract for various maintenance and upgrading tasks at the 100 year old US navy base in Cuba. When Aker Kvaerner was established, this was one of the contracts the new corporation inherited, and the contract was ended already in 2005.

We register that Amnesty wishes to use this as a symbolic case, but conclude that we disagree with their claims that our activity had anything to do with violation of human rights."

Document Owner: Torbjorn Andersen Created: 10 Jan 07 22:44 CET