There is no doubt that the hunger strike held by
inmates in the prison located in the illegal naval base in Guantanamo, that
started almost 2 months ago, on February 6th, is nothing more than a flagrant
violation of the human rights. Nonetheless, the U.S media keep silence
regarding this case.
Carlos Wagner, the lawyer who defends eleven detainees
in that prison, asserts that more than half of the inmates have the “clearance”
from the Pentagon to be transferred, but instead, they remain behind bars and
there’s no sign whatsoever that one day the may walk out of that hell
The number of strikers within the military facility is
130 inmates and not 31 as the U.S authorities would like people to believe. Out
of that number, 11 are losing considerable body weight and have been force to
be fed through the nasopharynx,, while there are 3 others, hospitalized
suffering a severe dehydration.
Visits to the jail have increased in the last few
days. Red Cross International Committee has showed interest in the health of
the strikers, many of whom have lost considerable body weight in spite of
having been fed up forcibly. Likewise, some of the human rights activists are
accusing the penal authorities for minimizing the dimension of the situation of
the inmates.
Once again U.S Administration is short of taking wise
decisions. They keep the inmates in the most cara facility of the world,
however they have not found a way to transfer them without putting their lives
at risk or encourage the rejection of the countries where they would be
transferred to. It is really a shameful situation for this country that claims
to be a defender of the human rights.
Some lawyers they have within the prison assert that
the hunger strike would end up once they are given back their holy books. Additionally,
there are protests for the mistreatment they receive in that military enclave,
apart from their frustration for the failure of the White House to close that
torture center as soon as possible, promise made by Obama during his first term
of presidency in 2008, and that obviously have not fulfilled.
Promises, always promises and nothing actually
happened. There´s no will on the part of the U.S Administration to solve this
situation, above all when all the commitments he said to fulfill, closing this prison is one of the most human and no doubt, the
thorn in the most uncomfortable of having U.S.
President in the shoe.
It has been ten years now and the majority of the
inmates jailed in that so-much-mentioned prison have been imprisoned for 11
years without facing any concrete charge. Guantanamo
prison is a nefarious establishment. The hunger strike of the inmates in that
jail is a more than a sufficient reason for the United States to close that wicked
prison establishment, where the human rights are grossly stepped upon.
The situation is not difficult if you are wise and
intelligent. Only through the immediate closure of that prison establishment
and the act of handing that illegal naval base back to Cuba, could President
Obama end up that hunger strike that will pass over to the history of humanity
as one of the most serious headaches he has suffered during his years as
President of the United States.
