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Caribbean Concentration Camp

from Turn Back The Tide Of Bigotry by Active Minds

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The situation at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, where people have been held for many years without trial or any proper legal procedures, has been branded “a human rights scandal” by Amnesty International. The people are held there by the US administration on the premise that they are all involved in terrorism, but the US Government seems to have precious little evidence to back up many of their claims.
Inmates have been subjected to torture and abuse which would be rightly condemned by our own Government if it was being used elsewhere in the World. So why are they so reluctant to criticise the USA, which conveniently ruled that Guantanamo Bay was outside US legal jurisdiction? Of the hundreds of people imprisoned there since 2002, most have now been released without any sort of charges against them, despite spending many years in captivity.
One such case was that of the three British muslims known as the “Tipton Three”, whose story was turned into a docudrama film called “The Road To Guantanamo”. These were people who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. They had been in Pakistan to attend a wedding, and had then taken a trip into Afghanistan, to see for themselves what the situation was like there, at just about the same time as the US/UK led attack on the country. In the confusion of the chaos of war they were unable to get back to Pakistan and ended up being picked up by US troops during the invasion.
The US assumed them to be enemy combatants, and transferred them to Guantanamo Bay where they were held for three years without trial. During their imprisonment they were frequently tortured by military officials who were attempting to extract confessions. They were eventually released without charge in 2004, with the US offering no compensation for their illegal detainment.
This is not an isolated incident, but is par for the course at Camp X-Ray – a facility operated by a country which likes to think of itself as “the policeman of the world”. And the UK condones this situation by continuing to be the strongest ally of the USA – something it likes to think of as a “special relationship”. It surely wouldn’t be tolerated anywhere else without sanction. It is a shameful situation.

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It ain’t no picnic in paradise anymore. Now they’ve made a prison for those who face no trial. A modern day concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay – a clear example to show that what we’re doing is vile. Forgotten victims of an aggressive foreign policy – were they in the wrong place at the wrong time? Captured, imprisoned and shipped halfway round the World with no evidence that they’d committed any crime. The US won’t recognise the International Criminal Court – when you look at what they’re doing is that really a surprise? The British Government’s silence is a sign of their consent – a “special relationship” that we should all despise. If this was happening in some African dictatorship would the attitude of the Government be the same? They call it diplomacy, but it’s really just hypocrisy – they should all hang their heads in shame.

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from Turn Back The Tide Of Bigotry, released September 14, 2012

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