Gunpowder Chronicle posted on June 20, 2007 4:22 PM | Rating:
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We have heard for years that our detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba-- officially known as "Camp X-Ray" -- is a horrific holding pen that brutalizes and terrorizes its captives. Of course, those captives are held there for fighting an illegal war outside the bounds of the Geneva Convention. They are universally "illegal combatants" under that "holy grail" of a document.
Well, it turns out that Guantanamo Bay may not be a hell-hole after all.
Human rights groups are up in arms because six detainees were released and sent to their home countries: two to Tunisia, and four to Yemen.
According to Human Rights Watch, "Most of the detainees desperately want to go home. But there are a small number who are at such grave risk of torture that they would rather stay in Guantánamo." That was Jennifer Daskal, advocacy director for HRW in Washington.
According to the Miami Herald, "She urged the Pentagon to establish a "`transparent process for this small set of detainees to raise fears of torture and have their claims evaluated, before the U.S. government sends people back to a fate worse than Guantánamo.''
There are fates worse than Guantanamo? What will John McCain and Democrat candidates for President say now?