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US Peace Activists Protest at Guantánamo

CUBA, January 11, 2007.- The US peace group led by Cindy Sheehan is due to stage a vigil at that country‘s naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba on Thursday, to protest the US jail in that territory.

About 400 alleged Al Qaeda terrorist members are still imprisoned in that military enclave, portion of Cuban territory illegally occupied against the will of the Cubans, since January 11, 2002, without trial.

"Today’ s vigil and religious service coincide with the International Day for the shutdown of that prison," said Medea Benjamin, member of the pacifist delegation.

The activist traveled along with Cindy Sheehan, named the "Peace Mother" after her campaign to demand the end of war in Iraq, where her son, US soldier Casey Sheehan, was killed.

Benjamin, cofounder of Code Pink and Women for Peace, noted that President Bush s desire to send 20,000 soldiers more to Iraq is another example of his wrong policy, full of revenge and disrespect of international law.

Those pacifists, who traveled to Guantanamo, 910 km east of Havana, to demand the closing of that detention center, denounced warmongering and disrespect of international law. (Cubaminrex-PL)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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