Riots at the Guantanamo concentration camp

Guantanamo Riots, last week counter the claim, many conservatives are making that our concentration camps provide humane treatment and that we are not mistreating anyone. Our local newspaper The Wichita Eagle, May 20, reported that some prisoners took tried to overdose on anti-depressant drugs. While supporters have said this is just an attempt at Moslem martyrdom, others have pointed out that these people have been tortured, endured intolerable conditions and many are innocent and cannot get any kind of trial or legally challenge accusations made against them.

According to The Times, May 20, 2006:

“THE largest prisoner uprising yet at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre was reported by the US military yesterday as the UN watchdog on torture called for the camp to be shut down.

The revolt took place when ten terror suspects clashed with ten guards trying to prevent a detainee from hanging himself in a communal living space in a medium security section of the camp on Thursday.”

This camp has, from its beginning, been a human rights violation no different from those concentration camps we’ve seen in Eastern Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union. For the United States to take part in such gross violations of human rights is a disgrace even worse than the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Other human rights groups have called for us to close them.

Let’s do so at once.