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The Guantanamo Snow Ball

By Nestor Nunez
Taken from AIN
August 17, 2005

The scandal resulting from human rights violations by US prison guards at the illegally occupied US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba reminds one of a snow ball rolling down a mountain.

The growing and non-stop denunciations of the continued torture and insults against the Muslim faith, as well as other atrocities, have shaken the international community on more than one occasion. However, some powerful nations - such those in the European Union - despite having their citizens imprisoned in the US enclave, have not had the decency to criticize their American ally.

The truth is that hundreds of alleged enemy combatants, who the White House accuse of being terrorists, are packed into the military base with heads covered, chained and caged without them being provided the most basic necessities for human existence.

The sadistic practices that were used on the prisoners were later perfected in the prisons of occupied Iraqi and in the clandestine prisons that George W. Bush maintains in various parts of the world.

The Guantanamo drama cannot continue. Recently US soldiers revealed to legal bodies the fact that the alleged legal process through which some of the prisoners are being channelled is nothing more than a joke.

These same officials, who were approached by the attorneys of various prisoners, said the so-called justice system that is applied at the US naval base against the foreign prisoners is a fraud.

All this functions within a singular system that accuses, produces evidence, judges and sentences, simply in order to ensure that the public believes the law to reign supreme.

For the Cuban people it is an insult for a portion of their territory is illegally occupied by the United States; Washington's chicken hawks have created this monument to dishonesty and violence.

The issue Guantanamo has been raised in the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on two consecutive occasions in order to get that international body to discuss what is happening on that military enclave in Cuban territory.

Up until now, European governments have preferred to sabotage those efforts on the side of justice by refusing to support an investigation that might seriously injure their relationship with Washington. However, the facts continue to show that Havana has been right all along.

In any case, the Bush administration and its allies are sharing the weight of this disgrace.

 

 

 

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