Monday - February 06, 2006

Memory Lapse

Amnesia International is at it again. They conveniently forget that the prisoners at Gitmo are not criminals - they are prisoners of war. They were captured on the battlefield. They are being pampered and treated better than any prisoner anywhere in the world.

So what’s the beef? Nothing, really. Some people just got to gripe. And Amnesia Intl. has that down to a science. It’s too bad the group seems to have been AWOL when Saddam Hussein was murdering thousands or when Castro was locking up dissidents or when ..... oh, never mind - they’ll always go after the soft targets, don’t they ... ?

Amnesty Intl. Calls for Closing Guantanamo Camp
February 5, 2006, 10:27 PM EST
LONDON (AP)

Amnesty International called Monday for closing the U.S. Guantanamo prison for terror suspects and the release of nine British residents the rights group says are held by U.S. authorities at the Cuban camp. Nine British citizens have been freed from the Cuban camp for terrorist suspects after pressure from the British government, but Amnesty said another nine with ties to Britain were still being held.

The British government has said it cannot represent people who are not British citizens. Kate Allen, director of Amnesty’s British wing, criticized the government’s reluctance to act on behalf of British residents. “These men have become forgotten prisoners,” she said. The prison on the U.S. Navy base in Cuba opened in January 2002 and now holds about 500 prisoners from some 40 countries, many captured during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Many have been held for years without charge or trial.

“The U.S. authorities should immediately close down Guantanamo and either release prisoners or bring them before proper courts on the U.S. mainland,” Allen said. “After four years Guantanamo has become a byword for abuse and an indictment of the U.S. government’s failure to uphold human rights in the war on terror,” she said. Amnesty said Libyan-born Deghayes, 35, who was granted refugee status in Britain with his family in the 1980s, has been held at Guantanamo for more than three years. He has alleged he was abused by his captors.

Last year, he was identified as one of dozens of inmates holding a hunger strike to protest their detention. “I’m not looking for any special treatment for my brother. I just want his basic human rights to be respected,” said his sister, Amani Deghayes. “What disappoints me most is the unwillingness of the U.K. government to lift a finger for my brother.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 02/06/2006 at 06:39 AM   
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